League of Nations

Representing international women's committees, ER began serving as Assessor to the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations .

ER 's short political treatise War Can Be Averted: The Achievability of Collective Security (Left Book Club ) argued for collective security organized by the League of Nations , and against either appeasement, non-intervention, or disarmament.

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

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.

From 1926, when she took over editorial responsibilities from Archdale, MHVR selected all articles printed in the paper, and she demanded absolute loyalty to the journal's humanist and liberal policies. The journal stressed that feminists...

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...