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  2. 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. Secretaries General [ edit ]

  3. Category : Secretaries general of the League of Nations

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    Pages in category "Secretaries general of the League of Nations" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  4. Organisation of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    Jean Monnet was the League's influential deputy secretary-general from June 1919 to January 1923, when he was succeeded by the comparative lacklustre Avenol. [5]: 86 Pablo de Azcárate served as Avenol's successor as deputy secretary-general from 1933 to 1936.

  5. 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.

  6. Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth - Wikipedia

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    In 1919 he accepted the position of the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, on the recommendation of Lord Robert Cecil. [1] Before the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 much work had been put into finding a suitable candidate for secretary-general of the newly established League of Nations.

  7. Secretary-General of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-general and of the secretariat is laid out by Chapter XV (Articles 97 to 101) of the United Nations ...

  8. Joseph Avenol - Wikipedia

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    He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations from 3 July 1933 to 31 August 1940. He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933. He was succeeded by the Irish diplomat Seán Lester, who was general secretary between 1940 and 1946, when the League dissolved. [1]

  9. 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.