League of Nations

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...

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...

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...

Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality...

KEI published The League of Nations , The Complete Story, an updated and collected edition of her previous five books with the Hogarth Press in the form of a single monograph.

KEI self-published The Romance of the Health Work of the League of Nations.

EL was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly...

By the mid 1920s, VB was an established journalist who published frequently in Time and Tide (she was their League of Nations correspondent) as well as in the Yorkshire Post, Manchester Guardian, Foreign...

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...

Like many liberal and left-wing white intellectuals, KEI seemed to hold the view that Africans, Indians, and Aboriginals (from New Zealand and North America) did need protection and the benefit of white men's disinterestedness...

She explained the nature of UN Trusteeship, a programme first established by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations from which it sprang.

KEI published The Story of Nansen and the League of Nations.

In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...