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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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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, with white hair and mustache, wearing a formal suit and bow tie, photographed at age 80.
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