NOUN
- 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
How To Use League of Nations In A Sentence
- The same was true of various attempts made by the League of Nations during the interwar period to achieve world disarmament.
- Future wars were to be deterred by the League of Nations, which would take collective action against aggressor states.
- Most of the LoN's ability to project force comes from the WCRB, an organization begun separately in Australia-New Zealand and then "internationalized" along the model of the old Red Cross, and which still basically acts independently of the League of Nations itself. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
- After the war the League of Nations gave Britain, Australia, and New Zealand a trustee mandate over the territory.
- As to the League of Nations, a man that morning had palavered it up. The White Monkey
- Abyssinia is a savage country and shouldn't belong to the League of Nations anyhow. Ethiopia and Its Problems
- Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations.
- The first gusher of the Kirkuk oilfield was not struck till 1926, after the League of Nations had finally awarded the area to Iraq, not Turkey.
- Woodrow Wilson hoped the League of Nations would replace power politics with international cooperation.
- They term the League of Nations a military alliance, which, except for their opposition, would envelop our country, when, as a matter of truth, the subject of a League of Nations has claimed the best thought of America for years, and the The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox
