James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce,, was a British academic, jurist, historian, diplomat, and Liberal politician. He was a widely traveled authority on law, government, and history whose expertise led to
Bryce in 1902
James Bryce c1895
Bryce and Prof. Goldwin Smith, 1907
1911 - Bryce (far left) beside Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (also wearing top hat)
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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
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
…Bulgars and Armenians, and, later the Kaiser's Reich in World War I. Bryce was also a leader in promoting international organizations, most notably the League of Nations. Bryce had an interest in current democratic practices, as seen in his Modern Democracies (1921); a comparative study of the working of popular government…
The 1864 Geneva Convention, one of the earliest formulations of written international law
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".