Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] of nations " in BNC.
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| 31 | Three other villages arranged short courses in conjunction with local centres of the League of Nations Union . |
| 32 | I joined the Arts Club , with its opportunities for play-readings and occasional plays for performance to school or parents ; the Music Society , which had weekly meetings too ; and the school branch of the League of Nations Union . |
| 33 | He suggested that Danzig should become a Free City and a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 34 | The city would be under the protection of the League of Nations ; its territory would include Zoppot and the surrounding farmlands . |
| 35 | In spite of some very idealistic pronouncements and general high hopes , it soon became apparent that the best efforts of the League of Nations were to be frustrated with ease by the fundamental and unresolved differences of opinion as to the exact meaning of Free City status . |
| 36 | It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva . |
| 37 | The city had to offer higher than average wages to attract civil servants from the Reich and was also forced to make a contribution to the salary and expenses of the League of Nations High Commissioner to the tune of £44,000 per year . |
| 38 | The discriminatory policies of Poland , which had been prompted by Germany 's boycott of Polish coal in 1925 , had by this time developed into a fully-fledged trade war , and this , combined with the effects of the new port at Gdynia , the increasing Jewish population , the irritating presence of Danzig Poles and the continual clucking of the League of Nations , all helped to shift the political perceptions of the local population towards simplistic , populist , nationalist and ultimately racist solutions — namely those offered by the Nazi Party . |
| 39 | Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 40 | Greisser was summoned to the High Council of the League of Nations in Geneva to repeat his explanation . |
| 41 | In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations . |
| 42 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 43 | Mikos , In his study of the League of Nations ' actions in Danzig , attempted to apportion blame by counting up the number of important decisions made by the various High Commissioners . |
| 44 | product of an ancient and powerful Tory family ( his father , Lord Salisbury , had been Prime Minister ) , Cecil combined leadership of a non-party mass organization with an insider role both at Westminster and Geneva , the headquarters of the League of Nations . |
| 45 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 46 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 47 | EGGED on by a committee of the League of Nations for literature and the arts , Albert Einstein in 1932 asked Sigmund Freud the unanswerable question : ‘ Why war ? ’ . |
| 48 | Dorothy Sayers , discussing the literary tastes of one of her characters , the Russian exile Paul Alexis , said of the Ruritanian type of story that ‘ the greater European powers of the League of Nations had nothing to do with the matter ’ : |
| 49 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 50 | She participated in the founding of the League of Nations and was on the Council , though she failed to get a racial equality clause inserted in the League 's charter . |
| 51 | Mexico , a non-member of the League of Nations , claimed that this omission meant that France could not raise this agreement before the Commission . |
| 52 | The common law trust analogy has been drawn upon in the international legal system , most notably in the establishment of the mandate and trusteeship systems in the Covenant of the League of Nations and the United Nations Charter respectively . |
| 53 | Judge Schucking referred to Article 20 of the Covenant of the League of Nations , which also prohibits conflicting treaties , saying that this provision ‘ would possess little value ’ unless inconsistent treaties were automatically null . |
| 54 | These neutral members were appointed by the Council of the League of Nations which therefore also had an interest in the treaty 's performance . |
| 55 | A book published in 1935 , A century of municipal progress ( edited by Laski , Jennings and Robson ) as the title implies , had a tone which was optimistic and self-confident — in sharp contrast to the many threats to world peace at that time , indicative of a breakdown of effective law and order elsewhere : the Japanese invasion of Manchuria , the rise of Hitler , the failure of the Disarmament Conference , the progressive decline of the League of Nations , the assault on Abyssinia and the Spanish Civil War . |
| 56 | During that period he witnessed the dissolution of the League of Nations , and was present at the creation of the new order , participating in both the Bretton Woods ( 1944 ) and San Francisco ( 1945 ) conferences . |
| 57 | Between 1922 and 1927 he was on the headquarters staff of the League of Nations Union . |
| 58 | In 1926 Winifred Holtby visited South Africa for over five months , to speak on behalf of the League of Nations Union . |
| 59 | The membership of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1939 never exceeded 54 countries , whereas some 160 nation states , covering almost the entire globe , are members of the present United Nations , and the numbers are still increasing as new nations arise out of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . |
| 60 | The dream of a " new diplomacy " remained , in spite of the outburst of hope generated by the creation of the League of Nations , no more than a dream . |