Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Geneva in the Nineteen-Twenties
How Edith Campbell Berry Ate Six Courses and Practised the Seven Ways in the Dining Car on the Train from Paris to Geneva
Presenting One’s Credentials
International Civil Cowgirl
Entrée à la Haute Direction
The Accepting of Gifts: Miss Dickinson’s Chair
International Language: Scat Singing, its Ramifications, Magnitude, and Consequences
The Question of Germany
The Economics of Self
The Receiving of Envoys: George McDowell Comes to Town
Public Life (1): Cry Me a River
Public Life (2): Return to the Molly
Confidence and the Giving of Confidences
Pact of Peace
Holding the Fort: The Night Sacco and Vanzetti Died
The Tenets of Civilisation and Various Wonders Not to Be Talked Of
The Nature of Spies
The Weight of the Stone
The Key to All Predicaments
The Dance of Negotiation
Tramcar terminus Palais des Nations
The Years Which Followed
Postscript
Historical Notes
Rationalism
Eugenics
Union for Democratic Control
The World Population Conference
Under Secretaries-General
How a Registry Works – an overview
The Importance of the Duplicating Machine
The Covenant of the League of Nations – with commentary
Structure of the League
Assembly
Council
Permanent Secretariat
Secretary-General
equally to men and women
diplomatic privileges
reduction of national armaments
manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war
external aggression
arbitration
Court of International Justice
severance of all trade of financial relations
Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to protect the covenants of the League
Every treaty or international engagement entered into hereafter by any Member of the League shall be forthwith registered
Monroe Doctrine
peoples not yet able to stand by themselves
mandate
fair and humane conditions of labour
traffic in women
traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs
freedom of communications and of transit
prevention and control of disease
Red Cross
Original Members of the League of Nations
Who is Who in the Book
Acknowledgements
About the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright Page
