Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.35.3
Object Name
minutes
Title
League of Nations Union The Annual General Meeting
Place
Lingfield, Surrey; France; Spain
People
League of Nations Union
Events
Second World War
Description
Printed agenda for the League of Nations Union (Lingfield and Dormansland branch) Annual General Meeting, held at the Lingfield Victoria Institute. The speaker at the public meeting was a memeber of the Havas (French) Press, Robert Mengin, and the members were collecting for the Surrey Foodship for Spain. The reverse shows the income and expenditure for 1938.
The League of Nations Union was founded in October 1918 following the end of the First World War. It was further established by the so-called Great Powers (including the UK, the USA, France and Italy), as part of the Paris Peace Treaties in 1919 and 1920. It supported the idea of collective security - agreements between nations that should one nation be invaded, all collective states will work together to repel the invasion. This was intended to work as a deterrent to uphold a lasting peace. By the mid-1920s, over 250,000 people were registered members, peaking at over 400,000 in 1931.
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