General Knowledge Competition
TEE prize of one guinea which the Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Miss Pearce, for the following :— What Do You Know of The League ?
1. How many Member States are there ?
2. What are the official languages of the League ?
3. Where is the Permanent Court of International Justice established ? What English judge sits on it ?
4. What does the Covenant of the League call " a sacred trust of civilization ? "
6. In what connexion does the phrase " friendly right " occur in the Covenant ? Name an instance when Great Britain exercised that right.
6. On what occasion did a Government instruct its own army " Make only slight resistance," explaining that the League was expected to stop the war ?
7. On what occasion did a great orator greet the representatives of an ex-enemy nation with the words " Our peoples . . . in point of virility, in point of heroism, have nothing more they can display. Turn history's pages. Each has known how to show its heroism on the field of battle . . . Henceforward they can seek other victories on other fields."
8. With what department of the League's work are the 'following associated : (a) M. Rappard ; (6) Dame Rachel Crowdy ; (c) Sir Eric Drummond ; (d) Dr. Nansen ; (e) M. Albert Thomas ?
9. Where has the League established an Intelligence Bureau for Health, in the East ?
10. What area is ruled by an International Commission, under the League 1 11. Who was the first woman to speak both in her own country's Parliament and in the Assembly of the League ?
12. What woman has twice represented England as sub-delegate 13. What three documents pledge us to .a limitation and reduction of armaments ?
Answers will be found on page 112.
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