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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Assembly. 6 minute read. TIME. September 21, 1925 12:00 AM GMT-4. T wo Assemblies.
GENEVA -- The League of Nations assembled today amid the ringing of bells, the more than 100 delegates attending the sessions representing 42 states and over half the world's population. M. Paul ...
The UN's ill-fated forerunner, the League of Nations, was set up 100 years ago. Its job was to preserve peace after World War I. But we know how the story ends. The League failed spectacularly. By ...
Facing major funding cuts from the United States and others, the United Nations has been forced to shed jobs and start ...
It was the League of Nations, an ambitious entity established 100 years ago this month that asked its member states to ensure one another’s security and national interests.
GENEVA, Feb. 24, 1933 (UP) - The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in ...
The Hall was inaugurated on 25 September 1937 during the 18th League of Nations Assembly. It was possibly the first meeting room in the world to be equipped for simultaneous interpretation.
Following the unanimous vote of the assembly, at 11.00 on Monday September 10th, 1923, Ireland was admitted to the League of Nations. Cosgrave, FitzGerald, and fellow delegate Eoin MacNeill took ...
He did, however, make sure the League of Nations was an inextricable part of the final agreement. He hoped that once the League was established, it could rectify the treaty's many shortcomings.
The Fifth Assembly of The League of Nations (TIME, Sept. 8) heard two speeches on security and disarmament. One was from the lips of Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Britain. The other was from ...