The league of nations : perspectives from the present / editors: Haakon A. Ikonomou and Karen Gram-Skjoldager.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1-Inside The League -- The Men Behind the Man: Canvassing the Directorship of the League of Nations Secretariat (Torsten Kahlert And Karen Gram-Skjoldager) -- Three Generations -- The Directors in the Institutional Setup of the Secretariat -- Founding Fathers -- The Firs T Generation(1920-1927) -- The Insiders -- The Second Genera Tion(1928-1932) -- The Third Generation (1933-1946)

Conclusion and Perspectives -- Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- An International Language: The Translation and Interpretation Service (Haakon A. Ikonomou) -- So Much to Do! -- Towards A Geneva Language -- Translation and Interpretationas Heroic Internationalism -- A New Diplomacy -- The Symbolic Significance of Translation and Interpretation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Taming the Bureaucrats: The Supervisory Commission and Political Control of The Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager) -- The Power of the Purse -- The Supervisory Commission Andthe Institutional Balances of the League

The Supervisory Commissionand The Rise of the Small States -- War And The Problem of Avenol -- Between Montreal and Geneva -- Conclusion and Perspectives- Preparing for Peace -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Competing Internationalisms at The League of Nations Secretariat, 1933-1940 (Marco Moraes) -- Before Avenol -- Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General(1933-1940) -- Apolitical Technocracy or Fascist Internationalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Gender Distribution in the League of Nations: The Start of A Revolution? (Myriam Piguet) -- A Unique Step Towardsgender Equality

A Gap to be Uncovered -- The Bureaucratic Revolution that Favoured the Emergence of Women in International Administration -- In Practice, Genderinequality Remained -- The Gendered Division of Labour -- A Question of Education -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2-The Leaguein Context -- Naturism, The Permanent Mandates Commission, And the Denial of the Violent Nature of Colonialism (Florian Wagner) -- The Pmc: A Civilisin G Institution -- Using The Early League to Influencethe "International Talk"To Belgium's Advantage -- Colonial Internationalismand The "Neutrality" of the Pmc

"Neutrality" as Solidarityamong Colonisers -- Scandals And Reform Initiatives -- Legitimising Colonialism through Reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Israel Zangwill on Nationality and 'The League of Damnations' (Laura Almagor) -- Israel Zangwill -- 'Nationality' -- Two Men, One Brother -- The League of Damnations -- A Jewish Moral Vanguard -- Conclusion: Against the Grain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Untold Story of Eric Colban and the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (Mads Drange) -- The Minority Sectionof the League of Nations -- The Greco-Turkish Population exchange Agreement

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