List of Leaders of the League of Nations
The leaders of the League of Nations consisted of a Secretary General and a President of the Assembly selected from member states.
Secretaries General
Nation | Name | Term |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom | Sir Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth | 1920–1933 |
France | Joseph Avenol | 1933–1940 |
Ireland | Seán Lester | 1940–1946 |
Presidents of the Assembly
Nation | Name | Term |
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France | Léon Bourgeois | 1920 |
Belgium | Paul Hymans 1st time |
1920–1921 |
Netherlands | Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek | 1921–1922 |
Chile | Agustín Edwards | 1922–1923 |
Cuba | Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza | 1923–1924 |
Switzerland | Giuseppe Motta | 1924–1925 |
Canada | Raoul Dandurand | 1925–1926 |
Portugal | Afonso Costa | 1926 |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia | Momčilo Ninčić | 1926–1927 |
Uruguay | Alberto Guani | 1927–1928 |
Denmark | Herluf Zahle | 1928–1929 |
El Salvador | José Gustavo Guerrero | 1929–1930 |
Kingdom of Romania | Nicolae Titulescu | 1930–1932 |
Belgium | Paul Hymans 2nd time |
1932–1933 |
Union of South Africa | Charles Theodore Te Water | 1933–1934 |
Sweden | Rickard Sandler | 1934 |
Mexico | Francisco Castillo Nájera | 1934–1935 |
Czechoslovakia | Edvard Beneš | 1935–1936 |
Argentina | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 1936–1937 |
Turkey | Tevfik Rüştü Aras | 1937–1937 |
British Raj | Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III | 1937–1938 |
Ireland | Éamon de Valera | 1938–1939 |
Norway | C. J. Hambro | 1939–1946 |
See also
References
- Northedge, F. S. (1986) The League of Nations: Its Life and Times, 1920–1946 Holmes & Meier, New York, ISBN 0-7185-1316-9
- Scott, George (1973) The Rise and Fall of the League of Nations Hutchinson & Co LTD, London, ISBN 0-09-117040-0
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