What does LN stand for?

According to the scholars, it was Great Britain when it controlled the region under League of Nations mandate in the 1920s that first used chemical weapons in the region to quell Arab uprisings.

Among Iraqi exhibits, some Ottoman stamps from 1917 are overprinted with the disapproving legend "Baghdad under British occupation," three years before a League of Nations mandate created the state of Iraq under British control.

He opens with a literature review of minority rights law and the political theory of multiculturalism, followed by an examination of the development of the international law minority regime from the formation of the League of Nations through the Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide, 1948, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966.

If there were to be a League of Nations mandate, however, the region's Arabs said they would prefer to be ruled by Americans, rather than by British or French, according to the commission's report.

ILO was established in 1919 (the end of World War I) by the Treaty of Versailles, which brought the League of Nations into being.

The cause was the 1935 Peace Ballot, or more officially, the National Declaration on the League of Nations and Armaments.

Byline: Raymond Davies AT THE end of the Second World War most people of my generation believed that with the forming of the League of Nations we could look forward to freedom and peace throughout the world.

He deals largely, but not solely, with Africa; some of his most interesting chapters bear on the origins of the League of Nations mandate system and on the Pacific rim.