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• The League of Nations: From 1919 to 1929.

Gary B. Ostrower, (Garden City Park, NY: Avery Publishing Group, 1996) $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-89529-636-5). It is a rare event that is not celebrated ...

• Presidential Studies Quarterly
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 1, January 1997

• Does U.N. Serve Useful Purpose?

They shall beat their swords into plowshares ... nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." - Isaiah 2.4 World peace through collective security has long been mankind's fondest hope, formally expressed twice in modern history, first through the establishment of the League of Nations in 1919 and later through the United Nations, which was established this week (June 26) in 1945 when the U.N. Charter was signed.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• June 20, 2010

• Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., 473 U.S. 614 (1985)

...27, Arbitration Rules of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) (...49, 66th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 1, pp. 8-17 (1919) (Covenant of the League of Nations); Kant, Perpet...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Top 10 Worst Nobel Peace Prize Winners

TOP 10 The National Conservative Weekly® Est. 1944 www.HumanEvents.com Human Events finds the leftist-dominated committee in Oslo has a history of making bad awards 1 Yasser Arafat (19W): This murderous thug shared the prize with Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. 2 Al Gore and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007): Their global -warming alarmism is a recipe for global-economic disaster. 3 Jimmy Carter (2002): His post-presidential meddling in the international arena made diplomacy that much harder for his White House successors. 4 UN and Kofi Annan (2001): Lucky they got the award before the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal broke. 5 Henry A. Kissinger and Le Due Tho (who refused to accept the award) (1973): Their Paris peace agreement to end the Vietnam War en...

...7 Woodrow Wilson (1919): His great achievement - The League of Nations - ...

• Human Events
• November 11, 2009

• Uniform Law for International Transport at Uncitral: New Times, New Players, and New Rules

Conference carriers would award freight rebates to shippers, but defer payment until the shipper had demonstrated his loyalty by giving the conference all his business not only for the contract period but for a subsequent period of time as well.11 B. Exculpatory Clauses Besides commercial matters, such as schedules and freight rates, one of the principal subjects of discussion in these early conferences was the bill of lading.12 Liner services had led to more predictable ship operations and a better possibility of suing the carrier if the goods were lost or damaged. [...] it is not surprising that bills of lading in use at the time modified shipowners' obligations by providing a long list of specific causes of loss, drawn from various bills of lading already in use, for which the carri...

..., which is being negotiated by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)3 ...Forty-two States founded the League of Nations as a result of the 1919 peace treaties....

• Texas International Law Journal
• Vol. 44 Nbr. 3, April 2009

• How's Your Political I.Q.?

Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 (for brokering the treaty that ended the RussoJapanese War), Woodrow Wilson in 1919 (for his promotion of the League of Nations), and Jimmy Carter in 2002 (for his efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts). Adlai Stevenson, namesake grandfather of the 1952 and '56 Democratic presidential nominee, who was Vice President from 1892-96 under Graver Cleveland and was the running mate of William Jennings Bryan in 1900.

• Human Events
• August 27, 2009

• Article 37(2) of the ILO Constitution: can an ILO interpretive tribunal end the hegemony of international trade law?

... of the Security Council of the United Nations." (23) However, the UN Charter limits the Security...Between the founding of the ILO and PCIJ in 1919 and the creation of the ICJ in 1945 there were six... before the PCIJ after the Council of the League of Nations requested the Court to provide an advis...

• Georgetown Journal of International Law
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, March 2011

• The raid on Truk Lagoon: many younger Americans have gained the impression that America dropped atomic bombs on Japan to avenge Pearl Harbor, but our revenge happened at Truk Lagoon.

...This was formally recognized in 1919 when the newly created League of Nations gave Japa...

• The New American
• February 21, 2011

• Paris 1919 and Rome 1998: Different Treaties, Different Presidents, Different Senates, and the Same Dilemma

Introduction - II. Positions of delegations - A. Paris 1919 - B. Rome 1998 - III. Positions of presidents - A. Woodrow Wilson - B. Bill Clinton - IV. Positions of senates

• Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
• Nbr. 20-2, October 2011

• The New Negro of the Pacific: how African Americans forged cross-racial solidarity with Japan, 1917-1922.

... abolition of race-based polities in all nations. He was determined to make white supremacy a globa... Movement (1905) and National Equal Rights League (1909), denounced the administration's refusal to ...During the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, as Woodrow Wilson set out ...

• The Journal of African American History
• Vol. 92 Nbr. 2, March 2007