League of Nations

Mayo's book generated enormous publicity, high sales, questions about the need for social reform in India, and charges of racism. Rathbone was intensely disturbed by Mayo's findings, and initially asserted that to this American stranger...

ER was especially concerned that the League of Nations would not back legitimate, domestic attempts to combat fascism in various countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. She also served as Honorary Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees

As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER advocated League of Nations sanctions against Mussolini 's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in...

Her review concedes that elements of Mayo's argument and approach were flawed, but insists that the book drew valuable attention to India's social problems, especially child marriage. Using quotations and statistics from the League of Nations

EPL firmly believed that the Treaty of Versailles was doing more harm than good to Europe's attempts to recover from war. Her foresight as to its effects comes over strongly in her autobiography, published in...

She also served as vice-president of the Six Point Group (founded on 17 February 1921 by Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda ), another feminist organisation committed to ensuring that the condition of women remained a prominent...

The schoolgirl IM spent ten days at a League of Nations Summer School for young people at Geneva.

IM 's early travel was mostly political: Geneva for the League of Nations summer school, Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp in the intoxicating postwar moment of personal reunions and renewed intellectual freedom. Even her delighted...

She twice won prizes, in 1937 and 1938, for essays on political themes under League of Nations auspices. On the second occasion the runner-up was the future critic Raymond Williams .

This time the story begins with Kitchener 's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill , presented as the last imperialist. In it JM appeals to her own...

In 1917 NM joined the movement to establish a League of Nations . In the twenties she participated in the Women's International League , an organization of feminist outlook which was working to establish such...

UM took up a three-week post in the information section of the League of Nations in Geneva, where she became concerned about the crisis over Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia).

UM accompanied Haile Selassie as his personal secretary to the League of Nations in Geneva, where his plea for assistance for the Abyssinian people was unsuccessful.

In this book delegates to a League of Nations conference at Geneva disappear at an alarming rate, and contrasting national characteristics are amusingly depicted. According to literary critic Alice Crawford , the novel is...

Even during the height of the suffrage struggle CL had thought while attending a penal reform meeting that it was interesting the way these meetings for other reforms always turn out to be full of...