Leaders of the League of Nations
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The leaders of the League of Nations consisted of a Secretary General and a President of the Assembly selected from member states.
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[edit] Secretaries Generals
United Kingdom — Sir James Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth (1920–1933)
France — Joseph Avenol (1933–1940)
Ireland — Seán Lester (1940–1946)
[edit] Presidents of the Assembly
- 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 Augusto da Costa 1926–1926
Yugoslavia — Momčilo Ninčić 1926–1927
Uruguay — Alberto Guani 1927–1928
Denmark — Herluf Zahle 1928–1929
El Salvador — Jose Gustavo Guerrero 1929–1930
Romania — Nicolae Titulescu 1930–1932- Belgium — Paul Hymans (2nd time) 1932–1933
South Africa — Charles Theodore Te Water 1933–1934
Sweden — Rickard Sandler 1934
Mexico — Francisco Castillo Najera 1934–1935
Czechoslovakia — Edvard Beneš 1935–1936
Argentina — Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1936–1937
Turkey — Tevfik Rustu Aras 1937–1937
British Indian Empire — Sir Muhammad Shah Aga Khan 1937–1938- Ireland — Éamon de Valera 1938–1939
Norway — Carl Joachim Hambro 1939–1946
[edit] See also
[edit] 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
