League of Nations

As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER advocated League of Nations sanctions against Mussolini 's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in...

In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS 's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations (whose later fall...

EPL firmly believed that the Treaty of Versailles was doing more harm than good to Europe's attempts to recover from war. Her foresight as to its effects comes over strongly in her autobiography, published in...

Over the years she reported to the WIL on a wide variety of issues—League of Nations and International Labour Organization work, disarmament initiatives, the pay equity drive by women teachers in Britain, and suffrage...

Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality...

EL was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly...

By the mid 1920s, VB was an established journalist who published frequently in Time and Tide (she was their League of Nations correspondent) as well as in the Yorkshire Post, Manchester Guardian, Foreign...

KEI published The League of Nations , The Complete Story, an updated and collected edition of her previous five books with the Hogarth Press in the form of a single monograph.

KEI self-published The Romance of the Health Work of the League of Nations.

She twice won prizes, in 1937 and 1938, for essays on political themes under League of Nations auspices. On the second occasion the runner-up was the future critic Raymond Williams .

She explained the nature of UN Trusteeship, a programme first established by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations from which it sprang.

This time the story begins with Kitchener 's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill , presented as the last imperialist. In it JM appeals to her own...

Like many liberal and left-wing white intellectuals, KEI seemed to hold the view that Africans, Indians, and Aboriginals (from New Zealand and North America) did need protection and the benefit of white men's disinterestedness...

In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...

The book boasted decorations by B. Aylmer . Contributors included the Countess of Limerick (Crossing the Jordan), Irene Noel-Baker (A Landlord in Greece), Helen Simpson (In Search of Witches),...