Word: nansen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assembly, and Commissions day by day for over a month, and came away strongly convinced that the League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord Robert Cecil and Dr. Nansen of Norway, that is not the kind of spirit that either men or adverse circumstances can kill. It was interesting to see the leaven working day by day on such Americans as had come to Geneva with unfriendly or skeptical feelings toward the League. After a few days, I heard...
...practical constructive nature, such, in many cases, as have never before been accomplished in the world. To cite a few examples: it has set up for the first time in history a workable Court of International Justice; it has done the immense work, through its High Commissioner, Dr. Nansen, of repatriating 330,000 prisoners of war; it has actually prevented two wars, and brought a third to a close; and it has saved a nation, Austria, from the verge of bankruptcy and crumbling social run, by a carefully-planned international loan...
Among the books of travel offered one will find. "Through Siberia", by Fridtjof Nansen which was published at $5.00 for $2.35, "Republican Rome", by H. L. Havell which is reduced from...
...successful in actual results achieved than either of the first two. Lord Robert Cecil's Disarmament scheme, or, more accurately, Reduction through a Pact of Mutual Guarantees, to be presented next year; a definite agreement by four great League members to get Austria on her feet; the sending of Nansen to Constantinople to care for the Greek refugees; and work on mandates and minorities were the main business...