We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
The Success and the Loss of the League of Nations Society, 1915–1917
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2021
Building on the Bryce Group’s post-war plan, the League of Nations Society was founded in 1915 to promote a peaceful organisation to the public. After the Society’s first public meeting in May 1917, the pro-league movement successfully evolved from a small circle to a mass movement that mobilised the public to establish a league. Previous studies have, therefore, regarded May 1917 as a positive turning point of the movement and mainly focused on widespread support for the league thereafter. Yet, the year 1917 also marked the time when the originators of the movement began to lose control of defining what the league would be like. To communicate to the general public, the Society simplified its ideas by underscoring only the creation of an international organisation without going into details. It led the movement to abandon its original, sophisticated discussions about a new order, which became accelerated in the following years.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
