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The League of Nations

In 1935 a mass demonstration meets in Trafalgar Square to support the League of Nations and the abolition of armaments.

In 1935 a mass demonstration meets in Trafalgar Square to support the League of Nations and the abolition of armaments.
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The League of Nations was founded in 1919 and was based on the last of US President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. The League called for collective security and the peaceful settlement of disputes.

Related documents

Birth of the League

Cabinet Conclusion 9. League of Nations. 2 October 1918 (PDF, 1.685MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. The League of Nations. Memorandum by Mr G.N. Barnes. 28 September 1918 (PDF, 0.312MB)

The League undermined

Cabinet Conclusion 6. League of Nations. 26 March 1924 (PDF, 2.862MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Proceedings of the Recent Council of the League of Nations. Extracts from letters from the Lord President of the Council to the Prime Minister. 20 March 1924 (PDF, 1.138mb)

Successes

Cabinet Conclusion 2. The Graeco-Bulgarian Situation. 23 October 1925 (PDF, 2.814MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 4. The Graeco-Bulgarian Frontier. 28 October 1925 (PDF, 1.163MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 3. Persia. 14 December 1932 (PDF, 4.753MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 3. Persia. 24 May 1933 (PDF, 3.732MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Anglo-Persian Relations. 19 May 1933 (PDF, 0.514MB)

Blows to credibility

Cabinet Conclusion 1. China. 11 November 1931 (PDF, 4.815MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Manchuria. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 23 November 1931 (PDF, 1.328MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 4. Manchuria. 23 November 1932 (PDF, 4.707MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. The Lytton Report. Japan and the League of Nations. 19 November 1932 (PDF, 0.742MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Manchuria. 22 February 1933 (PDF, 3.671MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 2. The Far East. 10 March 1933 (PDF, 5.609MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. The Far East and Geneva. 18 February 1933 (PDF, 10.617MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Italo-Abyssinian Dispute. 19 August 1935 (PDF, 7.378MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. The Italo-Abyssinian Dispute. 4 October 1935 (PDF, 3.220 MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 2. The Italo-Abyssinian Dispute. 2 December 1935 (PDF, 4.836MB)

Cabinet Conclusions. The Italo-Abyssinian Dispute. 9 December 1935 (PDF, 1.546MB)

Cabinet Conclusions. The Italo-Abyssinian Dispute. 10 December 1935 (PDF, 2.954MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Dispute Between Italy and Abyssinia. 3 June 1936 (PDF, 1.843MB)

Death of the League

Cabinet Conclusion 2. The Italo-Abyssinian Dispute. 6 May 1936 (PDF, 5.560MB)

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Further reading

Callahan, M., Mandates and Empire: the League of Nations and Africa, 1914-1931 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999)
Clavin, P. & Wessel, J.W., Transnationalism and the League of Nations: Understanding the Work of Its Economic and Financial Organisation 14 (4) pp. 465-492 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) journals.cambridge.org
Egerton, G.W., Great Britain and the Creation of the League of Nations: Strategy, Politics, and International Organization, 1914-1919 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1978)
Knock, T.J., To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995)
Northedge, F.S., The League of Nations: Its Life and Times, 1920-1946 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1986)

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