The United Nations is now at a similar inflection point to the League’s position in the 1930s. When the League ended, the United Nations and several of its agencies became operative.

It was the League of Nations, an ambitious entity established 100 years ago this month that asked its member states to ensure one another’s security and national interests.

THE International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (2 Rue de Montpensier, Paris I) has just published the first number of a new monthly Information Bulletin, as the official organ of the ...

T he Secretariat of the League of Nations reluctantly made public, last week, a note dated one month previous in which the Brazilian Government of Premier Octavio Mangabeira reaffirmed Brazil’s ...

But at this rate, the UN could soon meet the fate of its precursor, the League of Nations, which showed itself to be useless in the 1930s and was finally dissolved just after World War II.

The UN's ill-fated forerunner, the League of Nations, was set up 100 years ago. Its job was to preserve peace after World War I. But we know how the story ends. The League failed spectacularly. By ...

He did, however, make sure the League of Nations was an inextricable part of the final agreement. He hoped that once the League was established, it could rectify the treaty's many shortcomings.

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