Founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. At its height, it had 58 member states. Although achieving much in its early years, it was unable to prevent the aggression of the Axis powers in the 1930s. It was superseded by the United Nations.
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League of Nations
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1864 - 1958, creator of the League of Nations, li...
Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain. Writer, reformer and pacifist.
Catherine Elizabeth Marshall was a suffragist and campaigner against conscription during WW1. She moved her interests from women's votes to peace and worked in Geneva supporting the League of Natio...
Settlement work in Liverpool then London, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women’s Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination ...
Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh was a British-Australian suffragette, political organiser, campaigner for peace and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First...
Political and social reformer, politician, peace activist, and anti-slavery campaigner he became one of the most successful newspaper proprietors of his time. Born in a small Cornish village and ed...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Peace, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Social Welfare
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