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{"value"=>"1920-1945", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1945"}
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{"value"=>"Subseries I. A. League of Nations Association"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The League of Nations Association (LNA) was founded in New York City in 1923 by George Woodward Wickersham and John Hessin Clarke for the purpose of promoting America's participation in the League of Nations. Its original title was the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, which was changed to the LNA in 1930. The LNA was descended from the League to Enforce Peace, founded in Philadelphia in 1915, and which in the post-war period had split into factions. Two of the factions, the American Association for International Cooperation and the Organization Committee of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Committee, joined together in 1923 to form the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association.</p> <p>By 1931, under the leadership of its director, Philip Curtis Nash, and its president, George Woodward Wickersham, the LNA became one of the leading proponents of the principles of collective security and international cooperation. The LNA grew to a national organization with branches in thirty-two states, a Greater New York Branch, a Midwest office in Chicago, and an American Committee in Geneva.</p> <p>During the war years, the LNA took a prominent part in the national debate over America's foreign policy. It lobbied national political conventions for the inclusion of pro-League in party platforms, supported the London Economic Conference (1927), the Disarmament Conference (1932), and campaigned intensively for America's membership in the World Court for the revision of the Covenant of the League of Nations.</p> <p>With the approach of World War II, the LNA sought to strengthen collective security by urging an amendment to the Neutrality Act, which would permit aid to the victim of an aggression. By 1941, the LNA had thrown its full support to the William Allen White Committee.</p> <p>Through its research affiliate, the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, the LNA made important contributions towards the development of the Charter of the United Nations at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. In that year its name was changed to the American Association for the United Nations.</p> <p>The LNA published <span class=\"title\">the League of Nations News</span>, <span class=\"title\">the League of Nations Chronicle</span>, and issued numerous press releases and statements on public affairs. Its principle officers included executive directors Charles C. Bauer, Philip C. Nash, and Clark M. Eichelberger; John H. Clarke (president), George W. Wickersham (chairman of the board), and James T. Shotwell (president).</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The records of the League of Nations Association are arranged into Correspondence and Papers of the national organization, Greater New York Branch files, Midwest Office files, and Miscellaneous Records.</p> <p>The Correspondence and Papers are arranged alphabetically by year, and include unsorted correspondence for each year. The correspondence is with officers and members of the advisory council, state branches of the LNA, politicians, academicians, governmental officials, and officials of world peace and world government organizations.</p> <p>The bulk of the files of the Greater New York Branch comprise meeting minutes of the board of directors, executive committee, and organizing committee; minutes from annual meetings; reports; and correspondence of secretary, Emma S. Russell; educational secretary, Aileen Weston; and other officials.</p> <p>The records of the Midwest Office consist of correspondence, arranged alphabetically by year, of executive secretaries Eichelberger and Paul K. Walp; field secretaries Margery Blair Perkins and J. Herbert Eichelberger; and J. William Terry, managing editor of the League of Nations Chronicle. Much of the correspondence is with state branches and the national organization. The Midwest Office files also include meeting minutes.</p> <p>The Miscellaneous Records consist of minutes, account books, photographs, and printed matter.</p>"}
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1920
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1920
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1945
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1920
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1945