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League of Nations
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Syria was once ruled by France under a mandate of the League of Nations.
League of Nations = an international organization formed after the First World War in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
- About 125 years after the appearance of this treatise in 1795, the League of Nations was founded, after the First World War. (source)
- "God and history will remember your judgment," he said famously before the League of Nations, and they did. (source)
- I cared more that he had helped found the League of Nations, promoting freedom around the world, than the fact that he had repressed freedom at home. (source)
- Woodrow Wilson, for example, shortly before his death, buffeted by the Senate in his efforts on behalf of the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, rejected the suggestion that he seek a seat in the Senate from New Jersey, stating: "Outside of the United States, the Senate does not amount to a damn." (source)
- I suppose one joins the League of Nations Union, and reads the Isis every week, and drinks coffee in the morning at the Cadena café, and smokes a great pipe and plays hockey and goes out to tea on Boar's Hill and to lectures at Keble, and rides a bicycle with a little tray full of note-books and drinks cocoa in the evening and discusses sex seriously. (source)
- You belong to the League of Nations? (source)
- Search me, why the League of Nations, but he lived by Baconian ideas of what makes the man this and that, and had a weakness for complete information. (source)
- I'll tell the President and the League of Nations. (source)
- When the other sages of the Pullman smoking-compartment had left them to themselves, Babbitt's voice did not drop into the playful and otherwise offensive tone in which one addresses children but continued its overwhelming and monotonous rumble, and Ted tried to imitate it in his strident tenor: "Gee, dad, you certainly did show up that poor boot when he got flip about the League of Nations!" (source)
- A world organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of preventing war, UNO, the successor of the League of Nations, with the decisive addition of the United States and all that that means, is already at work. (source)
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- And fewer still knew of Emperor Haile Selassie, or if they remembered him for being Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1935, they didn't remember the country whose cause he pleaded at the League of Nations. (source)
- A world organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of preventing war, UNO, the successor of the League of Nations, with the decisive addition of the United States and all that means, is already at work. (source)
- In those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over, and that the League of Nations would become all-powerful. (source)
- In those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over, and that the League of Nations would become all-powerful. (source)
- The stuff had to be where he could lay his hands on it at once, his clippings and pieces of paper, in folders labeled Commerce, Invention, Major Local Transactions, Crime and Gang, Democrats, Republicans, Archaeology, Literature, League of Nations. (source)
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Although the road to the establishment of a league of nations is laborious, it is our duty to work for the "universal and lasting securing of peace."
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league of nations = a group of nations working together
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When he was out of sight, Sophie unfolded the piece of paper and read it: Dear Hilde, It's too bad that Alberto didn't also tell Sophie that Kant advocated the establishment of a "league of nations."
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league of nations = group of nations working together
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