Word: mahmood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union; N. A. Beechman, also an ex-president of the Oxford Union; and Major G. H. Howard, ex-aviator and a prominent member of the Union. The 1922 Oxford team, which invaded America for the first time, named M. Christopher Hollis, traveler, magazine writer and a recognized wit; Magbool Mahmood, member of a distinguished family of India and president of the Oxford University international assembly; and Edward Majoribanks, probable successor to Lord Tweedmouth, secretary of the famous Carleton Club, and president of the Oxford Union, one of the highest Oxford honors...
Speaking before the opening meeting of the Students' Liberal Club in the Clubhouse in Winthrop street last night, Mr. Mir Mahmood, President of the Oxford International Assembly, strongly urged the cooperation of the United States with the other world powers in the interest of peace...
...Mahmood said that the League of Nations, even at its worst, is a constructive improvement on old conditions and not merely a political corporation. It has organized a Permanent Court of International Justice as the only alternative to war for settling international disputes, and, moreover, it is carrying on a vigorous campaign against disease, with which non-official American institutions like the Rockefeller Foundation are openly co-operating...
Believing that the United States could officially join such activities of the League forthwith, even if it could not see its way at present to enter the League, Mr. Mahmood advocated the following three resolutions...
...Mahmood is an ardent advocate of the League of Nations and has written several articles on this subject. He believes that, although the United States may not be inclined to join the League in its present form, she could officially join certain activities of the League immediately...