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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.
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Organisation of the League of Nations Source The League of Nations: A Pictorial Survey Date 1996 (original date: 1929) Author (scanned by Neytcho Iltchev) Permission (Reusing this file) League of Nations Archives, Geneva, Switzerland
This work is excerpted from an official document of the League of Nations. Property of the League of the Nations was transferred to the United Nations when the league dissolved in 1946. The policy of the United Nations is to keep most of its documents in the public domain in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in ...
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.
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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.