James Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth,, was a British politician and diplomat who was the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations from 1920 to 1933.
Drummond, c. 1918
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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 e
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth
…secretary-general of the League of Nations. Establishment of permanent secretariat (1919–1920) Organization chart of the International Secretariat of the League (here in 1930), established by Drummond. One of the secretary-general's major deeds was the establishment of a permanent and strictly-international…
The 1864 Geneva Convention, one of the earliest formulations of written international law
Lord Bryce, one of the earliest advocates for a League of Nations
Jan Smuts helped to draft the Covenant of the League of Nations.
The League to Enforce Peace published this full-page promotion in The New York Times on Christmas Day 1918. It resolved that the League "should ensure peace by eliminating causes of dissension, by deciding controversies by peaceable means, and by uniting the potential force of all the members as a standing menace against any nation that seeks to upset the peace of the world".