THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PEACE

n this new volume for Seminar Studies, Martyn Housden sets out to balance the League's work in settling disputes, international secu rity and disarmament with an analysis of its achievements in social and economic fields. He explores the individual contributions of founding members of the League, such as Fridtjof Nansen, Ludwik Rajchman, Rachel Crowdy, Robert Cecil and Jan Smuts, whose humanita rian work laid the foundations for the later successes of the United Nations in such areas as:the welfare of vulnerable people, espe cially p...[Read more]