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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.

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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)