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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. 283 |
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... |
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