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League of Nations. Volume 2, 1919
Author: League of Nations
Author: Theodore MarburgPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230231563
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES 1. The rhapsody, "Follow the Flag," was struck off by the writer immediately after the United States entered the war. It appeared in The Independent, April 21, 1917, and is reproduced here in the belief that it helps to express the purpose of America and the aim of a league of nations. 2. In the present volume the writer has not hesitated to draw freely on his addresses and published articles with a view to examining objections advanced against the league project as well as further to develop its principles and aims. Care has been exercised to avoid going over ground already covered in Vol. I. 3. [In previous editions the following note appeared as part of the text. It is retained here, together with notes 4 and 5, in the belief that the matter has historical interest.] Without interfering with the duty of the hour -- the duty to overcome Germany -- the Allies could set up forthwith a Court and an International Council -- to perform the functions which the Versailles Council is performing at the present moment and to assume the added functions 123 of Inquiry and Conciliation -- and it could organize a quasi-legislature. These institutions would help, not hinder, the cooperation so necessary to win the war. And whatever betide, they would remain as a valuable legacy to the world. To develop the Versailles Council forthwith into a rudimentary international organization, as advocated by certain members of the French official group, is the most urgent practical step in connection with the league-of-nations movement. Here are some of the reasons. The successful conduct of the war would be promoted by more complete cooperation of the Allies. Organization, effected now, may prove to be the nucleus of a permanent league. Broad community of...
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919
Author: Sakiko KaigaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108733540
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this innovative account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World War, revealing its unexpected consequences for the development of the first international organisation for peace. Combining international, social, intellectual history and international relations, she challenges two misunderstandings about the role of the movement: that their ideas about a league were utopian and that its peaceful ideal appealed to the war-weary public. Kaiga demonstrates how the original post-war plan consisted of both realistic and idealistic views of international relations, and shows how it evolved and changed in tandem with the war. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the unknown origins of the League of Nations and highlights the transformation of international society and of ideas about war prevention in the twentieth century to the present.
The League of Nations, from 1919 to 1929
Author: Gary B. OstrowerPublisher:
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Paris 1919
Author: Margaret MacMillanPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307432963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Praise for Paris 1919 “It’s easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph (London)
The League of Nations and the Organization of Peace
Author: Martyn HousdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317862228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and prevent the outbreak of future wars. It was set up to facilitate diplomacy in the face of future international conflict, but also to work towards eradicating the very causes of war by promoting social and economic justice. The philosophy behind much of the League's fascinating and varied roles was to help create satisfied populations who would reject future threats to the peace of their world. In this new volume for Seminar Studies, Martyn Housden sets out to balance the League's work in settling disputes, international security and disarmament with an analysis of its achievements in social and economic fields. He explores the individual contributions of founding members of the League, such as Fridtjof Nansen, Ludwik Rajchman, Rachel Crowdy, Robert Cecil and Jan Smuts, whose humanitarian work laid the foundations for the later successes of the United Nations in such areas as: the welfare of vulnerable people, especially prisoners of war and refugees dealing with epidemic diseases and promoting good health anti-drugs campaigns Supported by previously unpublished documents and photographs, this book illustrates how an understanding of the League of Nations, its achievements and its ultimate failure to stop the Second World War, is central to our understanding of diplomacy and international relations in the Inter-War period.
A League of Nations
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The League of Nations, May 30, 1919
Author: Charles NagelLeague of Nations
Author: Theodore MarburgPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355046929
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Hiram Johnson