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League of Nations
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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