The League of Nations, precursor to the UN, was created after World War I.
In 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union for aggression against Finland.
In 1932, Iraq became independent and joined the League of Nations after the British mandate ended.
The site noted that Wilson was not only president but founder of the League of Nations.
In 1923, Britain began to govern Palestine under a mandate from the League of Nations.
Then the League of Nations awarded Britain the Mandate to govern Palestine and prepare its citizens for self-government.
After the first world war, America's big idea to create perpetual world peace was the League of Nations.
In 1927, Britain signed a treaty recognizing Iraqi independence and offering support for Iraqi admission to the League of Nations.
Resolution 181 proposed dividing between Jews and Arabs the land then remaining under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.
The League of Nations' letter of mandate for Britain specifically enjoined the British to facilitate Jewish immigration to the land of Israel.
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Woodrow Wilson won it in his second term for his efforts to form the League of Nations (which the US never joined).
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But, alas for Western civilization, the unyielding part of his personality dominated his post-WWI conduct, which most destructively affected the League of Nations.
In his later career as a diplomat for newly independent Norway and for the League of Nations, Nansen employed the infamous Vidkun Quisling.
Despite this, the principles governing tax for multinational companies have barely changed since they were developed by the League of Nations almost a century ago.
Mr Osborne decried a global taxation system he said had been guided by principles set out by the League of Nations in the 1920s, with few changes since.
Namibia's troubled history continued deep into the 20th century: in 1920 the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its apartheid laws on the region after 1948.
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The United Nations risks becoming as irrelevant as its predecessor, the League of Nations, unless it does what it resolved to do and enforces a decade of demands it issued to Saddam Hussein.
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The group's chairman, Chris Spurr, said that although many saw the League of Nations as a failure because it did not prevent conflict, he believed Sean Lester "embodied the best ideals of international co-operation".
In 1936, Nazis in Danzig refused to co-operate with him and in 1940 he took over as secretary general of the League of Nations and stayed in Geneva until the end of the war.
Mr Overy charts the growth of the hugely popular pacifist and anti-war movements, such as the League of Nations Union, which in 1935 through an unofficial plebiscite attracted the support of 12m adult voters.
Fortunately for their ill-served nation, their willingness to renounce the Jews' sovereign rights under the League of Nations Mandate was never binding, because the Arabs rejected the plans and so rendered them null and void.
After he left journalism he moved into the Department of External Affairs in Dublin and in 1934 was appointed to the League of Nations in Danzig, then a free city, now the Polish city of Gdansk.
The San Remo resolutions were incorporated into international law through the mandates issued by the League of Nations and their legal force has never been cancelled or superseded by any subsequent treaty or binding international resolution.
They played a small, but real, part in fulfilling the prediction of a new world war that Wilson had made in Pueblo, Colorado, in September 1919, on the eve of the vote on the League of Nations.
In 1922, the League of Nations appointed a commissioner-general Alfred Zimmerman of the Netherlands to oversee in minute detail Austrian government policies and spending as the price for the financial support it was receiving from other governments (including Spain and Italy).
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At the United Nations last week, he went a step further, putting the "world body" on notice that more of the same from Saddam had better be unacceptable to the UN as well, or it will render itself as useless as the League of Nations became in the late 1930s.
Although he made dreadful mistakes in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, was devastatingly inept at handling the fight over whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations and allowed his Administration's wholesale assault on civil liberties both during and after the war, the vast majority of historians today consider Wilson a great or near-great President.
In a line of thought popular among German conservatives between the two World Wars, Kagan holds that liberals are dreamers who believe that nations will behave decently once they are part of a rational world order, where all are free to pursue their enlightened self-interests within a framework of internationally agreed-on rules, as promulgated by such institutions as the League of Nations and the United Nations.
That agreement was superceded by another which established a mandate system of French and British control, sanctioned by the new League of Nations.
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