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Delegates presenting at the League of Nations General Assembly, Geneva. The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through…

Members of the Australian Delegation to the League of Nations, Geneva. Identified second from left (wearing a top hat) is Sir Arthur Richard. During the General Assembly he attacked the failure of State governments to populate Australia and called on…

This resource is a newspaper clipping, regarding George Swinburne's opinion of the Locarno Pact of 1925, it is a good demonstration of how countries began to interact and relate to each other as internationalism spread.

It is a representation of several countries ratifying conventions. Visually, it provides a chart of where Australia was in relation to the rest of the world.

A description of George Swinburne's speech at the Town and Country Union in which Swinburne argues the importance of Australia becoming less isolationist by relaxing their tariff barriers.

An all-Australian Women's Peace Congress was arranged to take place in Sydney, with speakers from overseas. Subjects of discussion were to include the four points of the programme of the International Peace Campaign, and specifically their…

Pamphlet explaining international declaration on world disarmament

Education

A torchlight procession was organised for Monday, 3rd of August 1936 by the Women's Committee of the Victorian Council Against War and Fascism. This leaflet encourages women in the community to attend the procession in order to put pressure on…