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League of Nations
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Representing international women's committees, ER
began serving as Assessor to the Child Welfare Committee
of the League of Nations
. |
Textual Production | Eleanor Rathbone | 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. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 45 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She also served as vice-president of the Six Point Group
(founded on 17 February 1921 by Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
), another feminist organisation committed to ensuring that the condition of women remained a prominent... |
Travel | Iris Murdoch | The schoolgirl IM
spent ten days at a League of Nations
Summer School for young people at Geneva. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 68 |
Travel | Iris Murdoch | IM
's early travel was mostly political: Geneva for the League of Nations
summer school, Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp in the intoxicating postwar moment of personal reunions and renewed intellectual freedom. Even her delighted... |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | 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
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 76, 78 |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | 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... |
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... |
Employer | Una Marson | UM
took up a three-week post in the information section of the League of Nations
in Geneva, where she became concerned about the crisis over Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia). Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 98 |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
accompanied Haile Selassie
as his personal secretary to the League of Nations
in Geneva, where his plea for assistance for the Abyssinian people was unsuccessful. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 102-3 |
Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | From 1926, when she took over editorial responsibilities from Archdale, MHVR
selected all articles printed in the paper, and she demanded absolute loyalty to the journal's humanist and liberal policies. The journal stressed that feminists... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Macaulay | In this book delegates to a League of Nations conference at Geneva disappear at an alarming rate, and contrasting national characteristics are amusingly depicted. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 164 |
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
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...
National or international item
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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