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...

Over the years she reported to the WIL on a wide variety of issues—League of Nations and International Labour Organization work, disarmament initiatives, the pay equity drive by women teachers in Britain, and suffrage...

She later devoted much time and effort to work for the League of Nations Union and then the League of Nations itself.

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...

The UDC lasted until the mid-sixties. After World War One, it concentrated on foreign affairs, pressing for a reformed League of Nations (to include Germany and Russia), opposing expanded imperialist activities in China and East...

Brought up in a Conservative family, MR began in her late twenties and early thirties to develop the Socialist views she espoused throughout her adulthood. She said, however, I never joined any party ....

She and Vera Brittain regularly attended the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva. In 1924 they went on a lecture tour of Central Europe for the Union. Through her lectures, WH advocated...

SB became a member of a League of NationsCommittee on the International Traffic in Women .

The first such confrontation in which the Peace Army intervened was the Manchurian Crisis (which had begun in September 1931 when the Japanese launched a forcible takeover of the Chinese region of Manchuria). The...

The society voted to send the report to the Hong Kong government, and then, if necessary, to Westminster. The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir William Peel , was furious, called SB hysterical, and snubbed her...

She and Holtby attended a number of League of Nations Assemblies, including the one held in August 1926 at Geneva in Switzerland, when Germany was accepted into the League. After 1923 these trips were...

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

After the war, IOF increasingly turned her attention towards the promotion of peace and international co-operation through her involvement with the Women's International League as an executive member, and as the secretary of her local...

VW 's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was...

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...