Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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.
James Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, [a] GCMG, CB, PC, DL (17 August 1876 – 15 December 1951), was a British politician and diplomat who was the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations from 1920 to 1933.
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.
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 membership of the United States and the USSR in the United Nations is a key difference between the post-World War II international organization and the League of Nations. According to Henig, the official involvement of the United States "gave the United Nations a global reach which the League lacked, symbolised by the fact that its ...
Lester returned to Geneva in 1937 to become Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations. In 1940, he became Secretary General of the body (he became the League's leader a year after the beginning of World War II which showed that the League had failed its primary purpose). The League had only 100 employees, including guards and janitors ...