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League of Nations
An association of self-governing states, dominions, and colonies created by a covenant forming part I of the Peace Treaty of 1919 ‘in order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security’. League of Nations Society (later Union): a society formed to promote the principles of the League of Nations.
1917H. N. Brailsford (title) A League of Nations. Ibid. ii. 37 The programme of the British ‘League of Nations Society’ is as follows. 1917A. Huxley Let. 30 Sept. (1969) 133, I have spent the morning in correcting..essays on the possibility..of a League of Nations. 1919League of Nations Jrnl. Jan. 1 The Union..Resulting..from the amalgamation of the League of Nations Society and of the League of Free Nations Association,..includes members of a society which has been working since May, 1915, for the establishment of a League of Nations, and of a new and vigorous association which was inaugurated in the summer of 1918. 1919Treaty of Peace (H.M.S.O.) xii. art. 376 Disputes which may arise..shall be settled as provided by the League of Nations. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXII. 647/2 Perhaps the most important event which happened in Switzerland in 1920 was the first meeting of the League of Nations in Geneva. a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 442 He was the scourge of God: not the scourge of the League of Nations, hired and paid in cash. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 694 The term ‘League of Nations’ is of English origin and it seems to have been first used by a small group of people meeting in the house of Mr. Walter Rea... (E. M. Forster in his life of Lowes Dickinson (1934) gives reasons for ascribing the term to that writer, who may have used it for the two possible ‘leagues’ he sketched in the first fortnight of the war.) These people founded a League of Nations Society, with Lord Shaw as president, early in 1915. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIII. 832/2 The League of Nations was legally inaugurated on Jan. 10, 1920. Ibid., Pres. Woodrow Wilson espoused the cause of a league of nations in May 1916. 1971W. H. McNeill in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 47/2 Most of these lands were designated League of Nations ‘mandates’. |