Example sentences of "to the league of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among many high-level tasks , he drafted an Appeal to the League of Nations on minority rights , and made many approaches to various government authorities through a wide range of memoranda , petitions and similar appeals . |
| 2 | The Lytton Commission 's report to the League of Nations on the Manchurian incident in effect found Japan guilty of aggression and brought her withdrawal from the League , but the phrasing of the report was highly conciliatory and there was no further action . |
| 3 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 4 | The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council . |
| 5 | Italy had actually played a major part in getting Abyssinia admitted to the League of Nations in 1923 , eleven years previously . |
| 6 | His last years were spent monitoring the application of the treaties , and as an adviser to the League of Nations high commissioner for refugees . |
| 7 | In 1924 and again in 1928–31 she was a member of the British empire delegation to the League of Nations assembly . |
| 8 | Reference was also made to the Woodrow Wilson collection of materials relating to the League of Nations in the Dag Jammerskjold Library . |
| 9 | On 27 March 1934 , a National Declaration Committee was set up to organize a ballot on the British attitude to the League of Nations . |
| 10 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |