Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
League of Nations
Connections
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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 | 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 | 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 | Eleanor Rathbone | Representing international women's committees, ER
began serving as Assessor to the Child Welfare Committee
of the League of Nations
. |
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... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
politics | Winifred Holtby | 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. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago. 112-13 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 219 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was especially concerned that the League of Nations
would not back legitimate, domestic attempts to combat fascism in various countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. She also served as Honorary Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | 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... |
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 |
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...
National or international item
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
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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