The League is dead,” Robert Cecil solemnly declared on April 18, 1946, addressing delegates from 34 countries at the League ...

He enumerated his war aims in his famous Fourteen Points speech, with the last point calling for the creation of a League of Nations. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, he fought hard ...

The League of Nations was unable to prevent the rise of peril in the 1930s, and was swept away by World War II, giving way to the more powerful UN. In turn, the UN suffers from its inability to ...