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Article: League of Nations
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- Dictionary of American History
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
The name of this organization is generally traced to the 1908 book
La Soci
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by the influential French peace negotiator Leon Bourgeois. During World War I a growing number of political leaders, including Lord Robert Cecil in Britain, Jan Christian Smuts in South Africa, and the former U.S. president William Howard Taft, pointed to the need for an international organization that would facilitate greater security and cooperation among nations. The U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, whose name would become most closely associated with the League of Nations, had also repeatedly proposed such an organization. Wilson's concern to set up ...
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