League of Nations

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politics Eleanor Rathbone
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...
politics Maude Royden
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 ....
politics Stella Benson
SB became a member of a League of NationsCommittee on the International Traffic in Women .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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politics Maude Royden
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...
politics Stella Benson
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...
politics Naomi Mitchison
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...
politics Vera Brittain
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...
politics Kathleen E. Innes
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...
politics Ray Strachey
She later devoted much time and effort to work for the League of Nations Union and then the League of Nations itself.
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
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...
politics Annie S. Swan
In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS 's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations (whose later fall...
politics Constance Lytton
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...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
Representing international women's committees, ER began serving as Assessor to the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Virginia Woolf
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...

Timeline

10 September 1926: Germany was formally accepted into the League...

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10 September 1926

Germany was formally accepted into the League of Nations .

22 November 1927: Persia protested to the UK against the allotment...

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22 November 1927

Persia protested to the UK against the allotment of the Bahrein Islands to Britain.

21 March 1930: The Popular and Nationalist parties of Iraq...

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21 March 1930

The Popular and Nationalist parties of Iraq demonstrated against the British (whose mandate to govern the country had been supported by the League of Nations in April 1920).

19 September 1931: The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began,...

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19 September 1931

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began, signalling a shift of the balance of power from the Emperor to the escalating military machine.

October 1933: Hitler took Germany out of the League of...

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October 1933

Hitler took Germany out of the League of Nations , contrary to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (signed on 28 June 1919).

10 December 1933: For his active participation in peace organizations...

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10 December 1933

For his active participation in peace organizations such as the World Committee against War and Fascism and the League of Nations , Sir Norman Angell from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

March 1935: The League of Nations Union organised a ballot...

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March 1935

The League of Nations Union organised a ballot in Britain (sometimes misleadingly called the Peace Ballot) on the question of intervention by other nations when one nation attacked another.

: Members of the League of Nations members...

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Summer1935

Members of the League of Nations members conducted a peace ballot in Britain: eleven and a half million people voted ten to one for disarmament.

3 October 1935-9 May 1936: Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini) invaded...

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3 October 1935-9 May 1936

Italy (ruled by Benito Mussolini ) invaded Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia).

April 1936: The League of Nations mounted an investigation...

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April 1936

The League of Nations mounted an investigation into Italy's alleged use of poison gas in its invasion of Ethiopia (violating the 1925Geneva Protocol).

28 February 1939: Britain recognized Franco's government in...

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28 February 1939

Britain recognized Franco 's government in Spain.

30 November 1939: The Soviet Union, professing concern over...

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30 November 1939

The Soviet Union, professing concern over recent aggressive acts by Germany, invaded Finland when a joint military agreement between the two countries could not be reached.

14 December 1939: The USSR was formally expelled from the League...

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14 December 1939

The USSR was formally expelled from the League of Nations as a consequence of its invasion of Finland on 30 November.

22 July 1946: The World Health Organization came into ...

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22 July 1946

The World Health Organization came into being.

10 December 1959: Philip J. Noel-Baker from Great Britain was...

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10 December 1959

Philip J. Noel-Baker from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long-term commitments to disarmament, the aid of war-displaced refugees, and the League of Nations .

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