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League of Nations   /lig əv nˈeɪʃənz/   Listen
League of Nations

noun
1.
An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed.





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"League of nations" Quotes from Famous Books



... democrats. Jefferson, he thought, knew nothing and cared nothing about military affairs. He let the army run down and preferred to buy Louisiana rather than conquer it, while he dreamed of universal fraternity and was the forerunner of the Dove of Peace and the League of Nations. ...
— Four Americans - Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman • Henry A. Beers
... considered it to be most urgent that the delegates should be set to work. He understood that President Wilson would be ready to put on the table at the next full Conference, proposals relating to the creation of a League of Nations. He was anxious to add a second question, which could be studied immediately, namely, reparation for damages. He thought the meeting should consider how the work should be organized in order to give ...
— The Bullitt Mission to Russia • William C. Bullitt
... Melchard, properly handled, will give the show away, and the League of Nations or some other ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming
... Wenceslaus I, 928-935, we may as well take a look round the Europe of that time. We find first of all that the peoples were capable of getting into just as bad a mess as they are in to-day, and that without the aid of any new diplomacy, League of Nations and International Conferences. England was, so to speak, nowhere in those days; Englishmen did not wander about the Continent making observations from terraces, did not even launch missions and commissions ...
— From a Terrace in Prague • Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
... "you've got men and nations, and you've got the machines of war—so how are you going to get out of it? League of Nations?" ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence


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