The League: Decline and Fall

This film is the history of the League of Nations from 1930 to the onset of the Second world War: that 10-year span ending when Geneva, surrounded by Axis Powers, almost faded into memory.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:27:08
• Production Date: 1 January 1970
• Asset Language: Original
• Personal Subject: ANTHONY EDEN
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION - ILO; LEAGUE OF NATIONS
• Subject Topical: ARMAMENTS; DIPLOMACY; DISARMAMENT; JOURNALISM; WAR PREVENTION
• Geographic Subject: CHINA; GERMANY; GREECE; JAPAN; UNITED STATES; USSR
• MAMS Id: 2356228
• Parent Id: 837515

Description

Using historical footage and special interviews with Anthony Eden and Philip Noel-Baker, among others, the film stresses the League’s efforts to contain the dictators. It tells of the collapse of the 1932 Disarmament Conference, the onset of aggression in Manchuria and Ethiopia, Hitler’s move into Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the final slide into the Second World War.

• Scripts: File; LEAGUE OF NATIONS DECLINE AND FAIL 386 SCRIPT EN 01 JAN 70.pdf (642.44 KB); File; LEAGUE OF NATIONS DECLINE AND FAIL 386 SYNOPSIS EN 01 JAN 70.pdf (42.91 KB)