Great Britain and the Creation of the League of Nations: Strategy, Politics, and International Organization, 1914-1919

The first General Assembly of this Council since the war has concluded its meetings, which were held at the rooms of the Royal Society of London, under the Presidency of Dr H. R. Kruyt of Utrecht University. Over seventy representatives of the principal Scientific Academies, of a number of National Research Councils and of the various International Scientific Unions, were present. The countries officially represented were Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Netherlands, Netherlands East Indies, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United States and Yugoslavia. In addition, as guests, a welcome was extended to Monsieur A . Establier and Madame Malterre of the International Organization of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations, and to Dr Needham, head of the Scientific Division of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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Conservative internationalism: British approaches to international organization and the creation of the league of nations

Diplomacy and Statecraft ◽

10.1080/09592299408405906 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

George Egerton

Keyword(s):

League Of Nations ◽

International Organization ◽

The Creation

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History of the creation and activities of the League of Nations

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii201909statyi04 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 (09) ◽

pp. 108-113

Author(s):

Alexander Begichev ◽

Alexander Galushkin ◽

Andrey Zvonaryev ◽

Victor Shestak

Keyword(s):

League Of Nations ◽

History Of ◽

The Creation

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Counterterrorism Between the Wars

10.1093/oso/9780198864042.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mary S. Barton

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Great Britain ◽

Domestic Politics ◽

The United States ◽

League Of Nations ◽

Great Powers ◽

Common Interests ◽

Independence Movements ◽

Second World ◽

The U.S

This is a book about terrorism, weapons, and diplomacy in the interwar years between the First and Second World Wars. It charts the convergence of the manufacture and trade of arms; diplomacy among the Great Powers and the domestic politics within them; the rise of national liberation and independence movements; and the burgeoning concept and early institutions of international counterterrorism. Key themes include: a transformation in meaning and practice of terrorism; the inability of Great Powers—namely, Great Britain, the United States, France—to harmonize perceptions of interest and the pursuit of common interests; the establishment of the tools and infrastructure of modern intelligence—including the U.S.-U.K. cooperation that would evolve into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance; and the nature of peacetime in the absence of major wars. Particular emphasis is given to British attempts to quell revolutionary nationalist movements in India and elsewhere in its empire, and to the Great Powers’ combined efforts to counter the activities of the Communist International. The facilitating roles of the Paris Peace Conference and League of Nations are explored here, in the context of the Arms Traffic Convention of 1919, the Arms Traffic Conference of 1925, and the 1937 Terrorism Convention.

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Prologue to peacekeeping: Ireland and the Saar, 1934–5

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021121400013237 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 30 (119) ◽

pp. 420-428 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Kennedy

Keyword(s):

League Of Nations ◽

The State ◽

Secretary General ◽

Free State ◽

International Labour Organisation ◽

High Commissioner ◽

The Status ◽

Assistant Director ◽

The Creation ◽

International Peacekeeping

A list from September 1939 of files destroyed by the Department of External Affairs in the invasion scares of 1939–40 contains an intriguing reference to the possibility of dispatching Irish military forces to the Saarland on the Franco-German border in the winter of 1934–5. There they would serve as part of an international peacekeeping force while a plebiscite on the status of the territory was carried out under League of Nations auspices in January 1935. The context of this article is the events surrounding the creation of the peacekeeping force in December 1934.That the Irish Free State should be mentioned as a possible contributor to the international force for the Saar is an illustration of the emerging mediatory role the state was to adopt after its three-year term on the League Council concluded in September 1933. With an Irish diplomat, Sean Lester, seconded to League service as High Commissioner in Danzig from 1934, and with Irish-born Edward Phelan, Assistant Director of the International Labour Organisation, being mentioned as a possible contender for the League post of Deputy Secretary-General in 1933, and with Eamon de Valera rising in importance as an international statesman and League supporter, Ireland’s involvement in the Saar was both an illustration and a result of the state’s prominent position in the League in the early to mid-1930s.

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