Digesting the League of Nations: Planning the International Secretariat of the Future, 1941–1944
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Benjamin Auberer
Abstract
This article examines the administrative debates on the structure of the post-war international order that took place during the Second World War. By focusing on a multinational study group composed of former high ranking League of Nations civil servants affiliated with the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, it elucidates the activities of international civil servants after they left the League. It is shown how the group claimed to represent the experiences of the international secretariat of the League of Nations on a comprehensive scale by publishing a report on the evaluation of the League’s secretariat. An examination of the report investigates how the group defended the League of Nations and their own participation in the League.
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- Frontmatter
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- Editors’ Note: Situating Internationalism 1919–1940s
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- Book Reviews
- Immanuel Ness: Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
- Robert D. Kaplan: In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Editors’ Note: Situating Internationalism 1919–1940s
- Defending Turkey on Global Stages: The Young Turk Reşit Saffet’s Internationalist Strategy in 1919
- The Politics of Music in International Organizations in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- International Experts or Fascist Envoys? Alberto Theodoli and Pietro Stoppani at the League of Nations
- Tourists at the League of Nations. Conceptions of Internationalism around the Palais des Nations, 1925–1946
- “The Muslim World” Question during the Interwar Era Global Imaginary, 1924–1945
- The Red Swastika Society’s Humanitarian Work: A Re-interpretation of the Red Cross in China
- Digesting the League of Nations: Planning the International Secretariat of the Future, 1941–1944
- Book Reviews
- Immanuel Ness: Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
- Robert D. Kaplan: In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
