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  2. Member states of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The League of Nations (LN or LoN; French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃], SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. [1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

  4. Organisation of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    League of Nations Organisation chart (in 1930). [1] The League of Nations was established with three main constitutional organs: the Assembly; the Council; the Permanent Secretariat. The two essential wings of the League were the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Labour Organization.

  5. List of leaders of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The leaders of the League of Nations consisted of a Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General and a President of the Assembly selected from member states.

  6. United Kingdom and the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations

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    Arthur Salter was the head of the EFO during its heyday from 1922 to 1931. In 1919, a prefiguration team of the League, located at 117 Piccadilly in London, had started to collect and publish economic statistics, [1]: 27 which remained the initial focus of the Economic and Financial Section that was soon established within the League Secretariat, [2]: 470 and spent much of 1920 preparing the ...

  8. United States and the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The American absence in the League of Nations did not prevent the nation from becoming an official member of the United Nations, formed at the conclusion of the Second World War. The United States was one of five permanent members of the Security Council, with the other four countries the USSR , France , Nationalist China, and Britain. [ 15 ]

  9. Lodge Reservations - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty called for the creation of a League of Nations in which the promise of mutual security would hopefully prevent another major world war; the League charter, primarily written by President Woodrow Wilson, let the League set the terms for war and peace. If the League called for military action, all members would have to join in.