Into the protecting arms: the League of Nations and the extension of international assistance to unprotected persons in the Middle East and Europe, 1926 - 1928

The refugee dilemma in Europe in the years between the two world wars had a number of aspects: humanitarian, political, and diplomatic. It raised questions of migration, questions of international law, and questions of the fate of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Refugees were visible from the very last days of the war and remained a matter of serious international concern even beyond the outbreak of war again in September 1939. The refugee dilemma in Europe was, firstly, a humanitarian crisis because the size of the refugee population was without precedent. It was also a political problem because national governments had to contend with questions about the refugees' legal status and their legitimacy under national and international law, as well as balance humanitarian concerns with national political interests. The humanitarian and political aspects together created a crisis for the international community newly united in the League of Nations. One of its first great acts-to take these refugees into its protective care-was not even prescribed for it in its Covenant. But the refugee crisis facing Europe was so great that member states were united in the belief that the League had been established precisely to undertake a task of this kind.

Lessons on security and disarmament from the history of the League of Nations /

"Published for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace by King's Crown Press, New York".

Key to League of Nations documents placed on public sale, 1920-1929 /

Kept up to date by supplements, 1930-1934/36.

Minutes of the sixth annual meeting of the General Council of the League of Nations Union...

Held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt St., Liverpool, on June 23 and 24, 1925.

Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the administration of Tanganyika Territory.

First report covers period from armistice to end of 1920.

Procés-verbal du Conseil de la Société des nations. Minutes of the Council of the League of Nations.

Mode of access: Internet.

Entscheidungen des Hohen Kommissars des Völkerbundes in der Freien Stadt Danzig = Decisions of the High Commissioners, League of Nations, Free City of Danzig /

Description based on: 1923.

Israel, Europe and the Anglo-Saxons. Being an ancient key to modern happenings, including the League of Nations.

Based on the author's De verloren stammen Israels, teruggevonden in de volkeren van Europa. cf. p. [5]

First and second interim reports of the Gold delegation of the Financial committee of the League of nations ...

Without annexes of 1st report.