Covenant of the League of Nations - Milestone Documents

Covenant of the League of Nations

( 1919 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Eagleton, Clyde. “Reform of the Covenant of the League of Nations.” American Political Science Review 31, no. 3 (June 1937): 455–472.
  • Myers, Denys P. “The League of Nations Covenant: 1939 Model.” American Political Science Review 33, no. 2 (April 1939): 193–218.
  • ———. “Liquidation of League of Nations Functions.” American Journal of International Law 42, no. 2 (April 1948): 320–354.
  • Pell, Herbert C., Jr. “The League of Nations Covenant.” Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York 8, no. 3 (July 1919): 46–49.
  • Pemberton, Jo-Anne. “New Worlds for Old: The League of Nations in the Age of Electricity.” Review of International Studies 28, no. 2 (April 2002): 311–336.
  • Williams, John Fischer. “The Covenant of the League of Nations and War.” Cambridge Law Journal 5, no. 1 (1935): 1–21.
  • Wright, Quincy. “Effects of the League of Nations Covenant.” American Political Science Review 13, no. 4 (November 1919): 556–576.

Books

  • Kennedy, Sabe McClain. The Monroe Doctrine Clause of the League of Nations Covenant. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1979.
  • Kuehl, Warren F., and Lynne K. Dunn. Keeping the Covenant: American Internationalists and the League of Nations, 1920–1939. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997.
  • MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2002.
  • Miller, David Hunter. The Drafting of the Covenant. Buffalo, N.Y.: W. S. Hein, 2002.
  • Walters, F. P. A History of the League of Nations. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.
  • Wilson, Florence A. The Origins of the League Covenant: A Documentary History of Its Drafting. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1928.

Web Sites

  • “Appeal to the League of Nations by Haile Selassie, June 1936.” Mount Holyoke College Web site. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/selassie.htm.
  • “Britain's Breaking Off of Diplomatic Relations with Germany, 4 August 1914.” firstworldwar.com “Primary Documents” Web site. http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/scrapofpaper1.htm.
  • “President Wilson's Fourteen Points.” The World War I Document Archive Web site. http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson's_Fourteen_Points.
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