| After the war the League of Nations gave Britain, Australia, and New Zealand a trustee mandate over the territory. |
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| Instead he founded the Union of Democratic Control, a pressure group which advocated a negotiated peace and a League of Nations. |
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| The same was true of various attempts made by the League of Nations during the interwar period to achieve world disarmament. |
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| Future wars were to be deterred by the League of Nations, which would take collective action against aggressor states. |
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| The fascist states left the League of Nations to get a free hand for their aggression. |
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| The question is, will the United Nations follow the League of Nations and risk irrelevancy. |
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| The first gusher of the Kirkuk oilfield was not struck till 1926, after the League of Nations had finally awarded the area to Iraq, not Turkey. |
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| However, a few months later the Assembly of the League of Nations rejected out of hand the proposal as being premature. |
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| For the next 25 years, Syria was governed by French colonial administrators under a mandate from the League of Nations. |
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| Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations. |
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| After the war, Japan continued to rule the islands under a mandate from the League of Nations. |
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| Another category of dependent imperial territory was formed by League of Nations mandates. |
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| Considerable momentum has been created within this historic Council chamber of the League of Nations. |
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| The General Assembly was the organ in which now the power to terminate a League of Nations mandate was located. |
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| In 1920, under a League of Nations mandate, the British ruthlessly crushed a Shi'ite uprising, installing members of the Sunni minority as rulers of Iraq. |
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| Switzerland joined the League of Nations, whose headquarters were in Geneva, but regards membership in the UN as incompatible with its neutrality. |
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| The League of Nations was officially dissolved on April 18, 1946, to be replaced by the United Nations. |
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| Planning for a future international organization to succeed the League of Nations started during the war. |
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| The League of Nations never became the strong international organization that liberals hoped would restrain powerful and aggressively disposed states. |
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| It is said that the League of Nations failed because those who sponsored it did not have the power or will needed to make it a reality. |
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| There must be a new League of Nations, with the hesitations and half-commitments of the old removed. |
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| Even the high principles of liberal internationalism, with an emphasis on the League of Nations and collective security, made neutrality problematic. |
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| The Lunatic Fringe skittered around the ring, looking unstoppable until The League of Nations ambushed him. |
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| Political control changed hands in 1914, when Samoa became a League of Nations mandated territory administered by New Zealand. |
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| Switzerland recognized the Irish Free State in 1922 when the latter became a member of the League of Nations. |
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| Japan left the League of Nations in 1933 after the League had voiced opposition to its invasion of the Chinese territory of Manchuria. |
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| In the months and years immediately after the end of the war Canada would participate in peace negotiations, sign peace treaties and become a full member of the League of Nations. |
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| After the war, the United Kingdom received the League of Nations mandate over a number of former German and Ottoman colonies. |
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| The League of Nations was founded with the idea that nations could resolve their differences peacefully, but these hopes were unfounded. |
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| The colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire were distributed to the Allied powers as League of Nations mandates. |
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| Following the Versailles conference, Britain, France, Italy and Japan became the permanent members of the League of Nations council. |
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| To prevent a future world war, the League of Nations was created during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. |
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| Too weak to resist Japan, China appealed to the League of Nations for help. |
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| In Asia, when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, the League of Nations condemned it for aggression against China. |
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| The League of Nations condemned Japan's actions and initiated sanctions on Japan. |
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| On 30 November, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, for which it was expelled from the League of Nations. |
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| Under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, a number of mandates were created. |
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| The forerunner of the United Nations, The League of Nations, was founded in 1919, after the end of the First World War. |
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| The official languages of the League of Nations were French, English, and Spanish. |
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| After the Allies failed to reach an agreement with Lithuania, they referred the matter to the League of Nations. |
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| The League of Nations failed to prevent the secession of the Memel region to Germany. |
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| Roosevelt criticized the League of Nations for representing the interests of too many nations. |
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| Its predecessor, the Health Organization, was an agency of the League of Nations. |
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| At the end of the decade Shaw produced his final Fabian tract, a commentary on the League of Nations. |
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| The League of Nations, established at the end of World War I, was unable to act in the face of the Japanese defiance. |
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| In 1920, Switzerland joined the League of Nations, which was based in Geneva, on condition that it was exempt from any military requirements. |
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| He would nevertheless abandon this stance in favour of a more peaceful approach in the framework of the League of Nations, and from then on he concentrated his efforts on improving relations with Germany. |
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| At the end of this violent upheaval, empires would disappear, new countries would be created and a League of Nations would revive the ideal of universal peace. |
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| Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria. |
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| The ban, created long ago as a side issue during consultations about opium in the League of Nations in the 1920s, has endured over the years, through all the various upturns and downturns in culture or the economy. |
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| Our awakening from that nightmare led to the League of Nations, yet we continued to distil the fruits of scientific advance into the firewater of the weapons of mass destruction. |
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| By then hand-wringing resolutions deploring human rights abuses by a re-elected Mugabe government would be no more meaningful than were the protests of the then League of Nations following Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia. |
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| She was elected to the Alberta Legislature as an opposition Liberal in 1921, was the first woman on the CBC Board of Governors, a representative to the League of Nations, a Sunday school teacher, and a mother of five. |
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| The League of Nations stable are struggling to get over with the fans, but WWE officials seem to be quite high on Sheamus which could see him compete in a significant match at WrestleMania. |
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| The Covenant of the League of Nations was integrally included in the treaty, and the union of Austria with Germany was expressly forbidden without the consent of the Council of the League. |
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| We should remember that the United States, following a decision of Congress, had not joined the League of Nations even though US President Woodrow Wilson had been its main architect. |
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| I would go back to the League of Nations where the first big challenge came to the league 12 years after it was founded in about 1931 when Japan entered Manchuria. |
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| The League of Nations could no longer fulfill its mandate of preventing world aggression because it could not back up agreements with action for non-compliance. |
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| Canada's isolationist determination prompted it to fight Article X of the Geneva Convention, which embodied the principle of mandatory action by members of the League of Nations against belligerent countries. |
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| The pattern of international action on behalf of refugees was established by the League of Nations and led to the adoption of a number of international agreements for their benefit. |
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| History taught us with the League of Nations that if countries were not prepared to stand up and be counted then the United Nations would fall apart. |
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| It was born out of the educational reform movement of the 1920s and 1930s and the beginning of multilateral co-operation at the intergovernmental level within the framework of the League of Nations. |
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| The predecessor of the current tribunals, the Administrative Tribunal of the League of Nations, created in 1927, had no provision for review or appeal. |
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| Iraq, which joined in 1932, was the first member that had previously been a League of Nations mandate. |
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| League of Nations mandates were established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. |
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| The World Disarmament Conference was convened by the League of Nations in Geneva in 1932, with representatives from 60 states. |
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| The final meeting of the League of Nations took place on 18 April 1946 in Geneva. |
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| The border agreement was then lodged with the League of Nations on 8 February 1926, making it a matter of international law. |
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| However, the Senate refused to approve this, and did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles that established the League of Nations. |
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| The League of Nations was formed with the aim of preventing any repetition of such a conflict. |
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| He pulled Germany out of the League of Nations in 1933, claiming its disarmament clauses were unfair, as they applied only to Germany. |
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| The invasion was condemned by the League of Nations, but little was done to stop it or to liberate occupied Ethiopia. |
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| These and other initiatives were pivotal in the change in attitudes that gave birth to the League of Nations after the war. |
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| Following the First World War and the establishment of the League of Nations, the need for codification of international law arose. |
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| In 1919, Canada joined the League of Nations independently of Britain, and the 1931 Statute of Westminster affirmed Canada's independence. |
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| In autumn 1922, Austria was granted an international loan supervised by the League of Nations. |
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| The loan meant that Austria passed from an independent state to the control exercised by the League of Nations. |
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| Such reasoning dates back to the founding of the League of Nations and, later, the United Nations. |
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| In 1920, after the end of World War I, the League of Nations mandated the country to the United Kingdom, under administration by South Africa. |
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| In 1920, after the conclusion of World War I, Japan received a League of Nations mandate over the Caroline and Marshall Islands. |
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| After the war, the islands were governed by the Commonwealth of Australia under a League of Nations mandate. |
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| The 1926 Slavery Convention, an initiative of the League of Nations, was a turning point in banning global slavery. |
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| In 1922 a proposal by Iran and several other countries in the League of Nations to have Esperanto taught in member nations' schools failed. |
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| Harding continued American opposition to the formation of the League of Nations. |
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| The League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission took the position that the Mandate contained a dual obligation. |
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| In the League of Nations, the Soviet delegate Maxim Litvinov was the only one who proposed economic sanctions against Germany. |
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| The League of Nations in 1925 made Belgium the trustee for the former German East Africa which bordered the Belgian Congo to the east. |
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| Denmark joined the League of Nations in 1920 and during the interwar period was active in promoting peaceful solutions to international issues. |
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| As a diplomat, he attended the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference and worked for the League of Nations in Geneva. |
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| Which major country refused to participate in the League of Nations, set up after the First World War? |
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| I was in the Second World War for five years and fought for British people, not the League of Nations. |
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| After the First World War, the victorious allies divided up the German colonial empire and much of the Ottoman Empire between themselves as League of Nations mandates. |
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| Opium farming also increased, peaking in 1930 when the League of Nations singled China out as the primary source of illicit opium in East and Southeast Asia. |
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| Let's make it a League of Nations, have promotion and relegation, the lot. |
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| After months of diplomatic negotiations, the governments accepted mediation by the League of Nations, and their representatives presented their cases before the Council. |
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| The war ended with a peace deal brokered by the League of Nations. |
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| The League of Nations lacked an armed force of its own and depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were very unwilling to do. |
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| The final Covenant of the League of Nations was drafted by a special commission, and the League was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles. |
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| The archive of the League of Nations was transferred to the United Nations Office at Geneva and is now an entry in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. |
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| A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. |
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| Following the catastrophic loss of life in the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference established the League of Nations to maintain harmony between countries. |
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| In September 1934, the Soviet Union joined the League of Nations. |
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| Together with Lord Bryce, he played a leading role in the founding of the group of internationalist pacifists known as the Bryce Group, later the League of Nations Union. |
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| These territories included the League of Nations mandate territories which had not achieved independence by 1945, along with the former Italian Somaliland. |
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| They wanted a treaty with reservations, especially on Article 10, which involved the power of the League of Nations to make war without a vote by the US Congress. |
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| The Saarland, which had been placed under League of Nations supervision for 15 years at the end of World War I, voted in January 1935 to become part of Germany. |
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| Allied victory resulted in the defeat of the Central Powers, the end of the German Empire, the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment of the League of Nations. |
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| They formed the League of Nations as a mechanism to prevent future wars. |
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| Haile Selassie subsequently appealed to the League of Nations, delivering an address that made him a worldwide figure and 1935's Time magazine Man of the Year. |
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| During this time, Haile Selassie appealed to the League of Nations in 1935, delivering an address that made him a worldwide figure, and the 1935 Time Man of the Year. |
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| Japan joined the allies in World War I, and after the war acquired the South Pacific Mandate, the former German colony in Micronesia, as a League of Nations Mandate. |
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| After the World War I, several former German and Ottoman territories in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific were governed by the UK as League of Nations mandates. |
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| In return, Egypt was assisted in joining the League of Nations. |
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| In 1930 the League of Nations held at the Hague a conference for the purpose of codification of rules on general matters, but very little progress was made. |
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| For instance, it lead to the League of Nations Class C mandate over South West Africa, upon the insistence of General Jan Smuts, in the years immediately following the war. |
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| Following the catastrophic loss of life in World War I, the Paris Peace Conference established the League of Nations to maintain harmony between the nations. |
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| The proposals were approved by the British government, and much of the commission's results were later incorporated into the Covenant of the League of Nations. |
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| The League held its first council meeting in Paris on 16 January 1920, six days after the Versailles Treaty and the Covenant of the League of Nations came into force. |
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| The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations. |
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