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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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League of Nations
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Organization, with headquarters at Geneva, established after *World War I as an international attempt to preserve peace. Foremost among its creators was the US president Woodrow Wilson, and an early blow to the League's effectiveness was the rejection of his plans by a hostile Senate; the USA never became a member. Nevertheless the League had considerable reputation and influence during the 1920s, until the rise of Fascism made talk of peace increasingly irrelevant. Germany and Japan withdrew in 1933, Italy in 1937. But the League had provided an example to be built upon and improved by the *United Nations, which replaced it after World War II.
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