Best 1919 display newspaper WOODROW WILSON proposes LEAGUE OF NATIONS to END WAR - $40 - (Oxford, MD)

Best 1919 display newspaper US President WOODROW WILSON proposes the LEAGUE OF NATIONS to END WARs in the future - inv # 1Z-226 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction. SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Bridgeport Times (CT) dated Feb 14, 1919. This newspaper contains a bold banner headline and detailed coverage of US President WOODROW WILSON proposing a LEAGUE OF NATIONS to END WARs in the future. This proposal was made in the immediate aftermath of WW I. This is the BEST display headline I have seen with the attempt by US President WOODROW WILSON to propose and ratify a LEAGUE of NATIONS to end wars of the future. The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. Other issues in this and related treaties included labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked its own armed force and depended on the victorious Great Powers of World War I (France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan were the permanent members of the executive Council) to enforce its resolutions, keep to its economic sanctions, or provide an army when needed. The Great Powers were often reluctant to do so. Sanctions could hurt League members, so they were reluctant to comply with them. During the Second Italo-Ab…

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