GENEVA, Feb. 24, 1933 (UP) - The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in ...

For ten hours last week the world was like a ball enclosed by an electric bubble. Bubbling away in Switzerland, the superpotent League of Nations wireless station dotted and dashed out 15,000 ...

100 years after a proposal for a League of Nations was approved at the Paris Peace Conference, ... Japan, Italy ultimately left — and the lack of U.S. participation.

The League of Nations has done a great amount of good in manifold ways. ... Japan, and Germany not in the League, it is hardly possible at present to carry out the provisions of Article 16.

It was the League of Nations, an ambitious entity established 100 years ago this month that asked its member states to ensure one another’s security and national interests.

When the League's Assembly first met, it had just over 40 founding members. Over time, a total of 63 nations joined, though no more than 60 were members at any given time.

The League has taken another step which is even more directly related to the problem of economic rehabilitation. At a meeting of the Council held late in February it was decided to summon at an ...

After the League of Nations censured Japan's aggression, the imperial power exited the organization in 1933. Sponsor Message. On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor.

By 1937, when Japan launched a full-scale assault on China, the league had become a marginal player in international security. On the surface, there are striking similarities between then and now.