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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.
Arthur Salter was the head of the EFO during its heyday from 1922 to 1931. In 1919, a prefiguration team of the League, located at 117 Piccadilly in London, had started to collect and publish economic statistics, [1]: 27 which remained the initial focus of the Economic and Financial Section that was soon established within the League Secretariat, [2]: 470 and spent much of 1920 preparing the ...
Between 1920 and 1946, a total of 63 countries became member states of the League of Nations. When the Assembly of the League of Nations first met, it consisted of 42 founding members. [ 1 ] A further 21 countries joined between then and the dissolution of the League.
1919–1920 Japan: Nitobe Inazo: 1919–1926 Italy: Dionisio Anzilotti: 1920–1921 Germany: Albert Dufour-Feronce: 1927–1932 Italy: Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli: 1927–1932 Japan: Yotaro Sugimura 1927–1933 Germany: Ernst Trendelenburg: 1932–1933 United Kingdom: Francis Paul Walters: 1933–1939 Soviet Union: Vladimir Sokoline: 1937 ...
The United States was involved with the League of Nations in resolving the Manchurian Crisis. [11] Debates surrounding the United States' policy of isolationism in international affairs during the 1920s and 1930s have been held since contemporary politicians were making these decisions.
The mandate system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by the victors of World War I. The article referred to territories which after the war were no longer ruled by their previous sovereign, but their peoples were not considered "able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world".
The Treaty of 9 December 1919, between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Romania, placed under the guarantee of the League of Nations, 30 August 1920. The Treaty of 10 August 1920, between the Principal Allied Powers and Greece (signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, 27 November 1919), in force from 9 August 1920.
LON founding member state from January 10, 1920. Belgium had sovereignty over one colony and one concession: Belgian Congo (Colony) Tientsin (Concession) Belgium administered one League of Nations mandate: Ruanda-Urundi (LON mandate from July 20, 1922. Administrative union with the Belgian Congo from March 1, 1926)