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Date	January 20, 1920 - April 19, 1946
Headquarters	Geneva
Areas Of Involvement	international arbitration • disarmament • collective security
Related People	Woodrow Wilson • Gustav Stresemann • Fridtjof Nansen • Jan Smuts • Sir Robert Borden • Haile Selassie I • Aristide Briand • Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker • Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo • Karl Hjalmar Branting • Gabriel Hanotaux • Aga Khan III • Vojislav Marinković • Léon Bourgeois • Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil

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