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The Covenant of the League of Nations was part of the Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 between the Allies of World War I and Germany. In order for the treaty to enter into force, it had to be deposited at Paris; in order to be deposited, it had to be ratified by Germany and any three of the five Principal Powers (the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and ...
1919 (provisional) Italy: Bernardo Attolico: 1919–1920 Japan: Nitobe Inazo: 1919–1926 Italy: Dionisio Anzilotti: 1920–1921 Germany: Albert Dufour-Feronce: 1927–1932 Italy: Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli: 1927–1932 Japan: Yotaro Sugimura 1927–1933 Germany: Ernst Trendelenburg 1932–1933 United Kingdom: Francis Paul Walters: 1933–1939
The Covenant of the League of Nations was signed on 28 June 1919 as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, and it became effective with the rest of the Treaty on 10 January 1920. Australia was granted the right to participate as an autonomous member nation, marking the start of Australian independence on the global stage. [4]
The International Federation of League of Nations Societies (IFLNS) (French: Union internationale des associations pour la Société des Nations - UIASDN) gathered national associations promoting the ideals of the League of Nations. At its height, it claimed member-Associations in forty countries. It was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1919 ...
Latin America and the League of Nations; League for Small and Subject Nationalities; League of Nations archives; League of Nations Codification Conference, 1930; League of Nations Society; League of Nations Union; Little Treaty of Versailles; Lodge Reservations; Lytton Report
The Peace that Never was: A History of the League of Nations (Haus Publishing, 2019), a standard scholarly history. Housden, Martyn. The League of Nations and the organisation of peace (2012) online; Ikonomou, Haakon, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, eds. The League of Nations: Perspectives from the Present (Aarhus University Press, 2019). online review
The United Kingdom and the League of Nations played central roles in the diplomatic history of the interwar period 1920-1939 and the search for peace. British activists and political leaders helped plan and found the League of Nations, provided much of the staff leadership, and Britain (alongside France) played a central role in most of the critical issues facing the League.
Between 1918 and 1919, he was a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, where he was engaged in the drafting of the Covenant of the League of Nations. [ 1 ] In 1919 he accepted the position of the Secretary-General of the League of Nations , on the recommendation of Lord Robert Cecil .