League of Nations

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

<p><span class="deck">The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated presidents, and why it doesn’t have to.</span></p>

<p>We republish an essay President Hoover wrote for <em>American Heritage</em> in 1958 in which he recounted his experiences as an aide to Woodrow Wilson at the peace talks after World War I. This important first-person narrative candidly details the difficulties that Wilson faced in what Hoover called “the greatest drama of intellectual leadership in all history.”</p>