Commission on the League of Nations
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The Commission on the League of Nations was a body established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to design the structure, principles, and founding charter of the League of Nations.
Aliases (1)
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
advisory body
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international commission → organ of the Paris Peace Conference → |
| appliesTo |
Covenant of the League of Nations
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| appliesToJurisdiction |
All member states of the League of Nations
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| chairperson |
Woodrow Wilson
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| composition |
representatives of several smaller powers
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representatives of the principal Allied and Associated Powers → |
| country |
multinational
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| dissolved |
1919
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after adoption of the Covenant of the League of Nations → |
| fieldOfWork |
collective security
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international law → international organization design → peacekeeping → |
| followedBy |
League of Nations
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| hasMainTask |
advise the Paris Peace Conference on the creation of the League of Nations
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design the structure of the League of Nations → draft the Covenant of the League of Nations → formulate the principles of the League of Nations → prepare the founding charter of the League of Nations → |
| hasMember |
Edward M. House
→
Georges Clemenceau → Jan Smuts → Léon Bourgeois → Makino Nobuaki NERFINISHED → Paul Hymans → Robert Cecil → Vittorio Emanuele Orlando → Wellington Koo → Woodrow Wilson → other delegates of the Allied and Associated Powers → |
| hasNumberOfMembers |
about 19 members
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| history |
created at the initiative of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
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its draft Covenant was incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles → its work laid the institutional foundations of the League of Nations → worked in parallel with other commissions of the Paris Peace Conference → |
| inception |
1919
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January 1919 → |
| language |
English
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French → |
| legislativeBody |
Paris Peace Conference plenary sessions
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| location |
Paris
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| namedAfter |
League of Nations
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| partOf |
Paris Peace Conference
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| producedWork |
draft Covenant of the League of Nations
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final text of the Covenant of the League of Nations → |
| significantEvent |
first meeting in Paris in 1919
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presentation of draft Covenant to the Paris Peace Conference → revision of the Covenant text after comments from delegations → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
("League of Nations minority protection obligations")
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created |
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Covenant of the League of Nations
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draftedBy |