League of Nations

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 ....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 's The Story of the League of Nations , Told for Young People, a textbook used in British schools, was published by the Hogarth Press .

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.