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A REVISED edition of the “Aims, Methods and Activities of the League of Nations”, which first appeared in 1935, has now been published (Geneva: League of Nations; London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1938. 2s.). Like the first edition it consists of four parts, the first including a historical account of international organization followed by a description of the nature, aims and methods of the League. The second part attempts to describe and assess impartially the achievements of the League, and although eminently readable and not overburdened with detail, gives a good comprehensive account of its work, which at the same time indicates some of the causes of its success and failure. The chief criticism that can be advanced of this section, which occupies the greater part of the book, is that in attempting to be comprehensive it fails to evaluate sufficiently—the highly significant work of the League in the field of nutrition, for example, receives the barest mention. The work of the Permanent Court of International Justice and of the International Labour Organisation are dealt with in the third part; the final section of the book containing the text of the Covenant and extracts from the Statute of the Permanent Court and from the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation.
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The League of Nations. Nature 143, 513–514 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143513d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143513d0