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Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (28087214059)

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Paris Peace Conference, 1919 (28087214059)

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On 25 January 1919, the League of Nations was formed during the Paris Peace Conference. A product of the revulsion of war and earlier discussions on international arbitration, the League's principal mission was to maintain world peace through collective security and disarmament.

Despite a number of notable successes from 1920, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression, and was suspended following its failure to prevent the Second World War. It was replaced by the United Nations in late 1945.

Representing New Zealand at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 was Premier William Massey, who took an indifferent, almost hostile view of the League. Although he did not want to discourage the idea, Massey believed military preparedness and a strong British Empire was a better guarantor of peace. Impatient to discuss the economic cost of the war and New Zealand's interests in Western Samoa, Massey wrote to MP David Guthrie that it would have been better had the Conference began with the discussion of the actual peace terms rather than to take up so much time with such matters as the League of Nations.

Also present in Paris was Frank David Thomson, a career public servant and statesman who was Private Secretary to a succession of Prime Ministers (1901 to 1926). During the Paris Peace Conference Thomson served as a member of the British Empire delegation. The image above is of a conference souvenir and comes from a series of ephemera collected by Thomson.

Title: War History - Programmes (Play, Exhibitions); Postcards/Invitations/Menus/Booklets ('Majestic: The world's largest Ship'/Daily Mail: 'The Peace Conference in Pictures') Archives Reference: ABHT W3920 Box 1 / [25] Part 1 www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=2618386

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