“The League is dead,” Robert Cecil solemnly declared on April 18, 1946, addressing delegates from 34 countries at the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva.

Occupying an impressive amount of land near the Conservatory and Botanical Garden Geneva, the Palace of Nations was constructed in the 1930s as the headquarters for the now defunct League of Nations.

It was the League of Nations, an ambitious entity established 100 years ago this month that asked its member states to ensure one another’s security and national interests.

GENEVA -- The League of Nations assembled today amid the ringing of bells, the more than 100 delegates attending the sessions representing 42 states and over half the world's population. M.

If there was to be a new League of Nations, Ireland wanted to be one of those nations. ... President of the Executive Council WT Cosgrave led a delegation to the league's headquarters in Geneva.

T he Secretariat of the League of Nations reluctantly made public, last week, a note dated one month previous in which the Brazilian Government of Premier Octavio Mangabeira reaffirmed Brazil’s ...

He did, however, make sure the League of Nations was an inextricable part of the final agreement. He hoped that once the League was established, it could rectify the treaty's many shortcomings.

When the League's Assembly first met, it had just over 40 founding members. Over time, a total of 63 nations joined, though no more than 60 were members at any given time.