Digitized or open access publications related to the history of the League of Nations
This series of publications offers a fresh and enlightening look into the history of the League of Nations involvement in social issues. The objective is to contribute to the literature on the history of international organizations and transnational history while also contributing to current dialogues on contemporary United Nations politics and policies in a way that draws upon lessons learnt from its historical predecessor.
Communicating the League of Nations by
The volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the League of Nations (1920-1946) as an international organization with complex transnational communication relations from a perspective of communication researchers. The authors focused on the reconstruction of internal communication processes within the Information Section as well as its strategies of external public communication The complex relationships between organized information practices of the Information Section and the profession and practices of League of Nations' journalism can be understood as a co-evolution of journalism, public relations and press work. By the normative guidelines of the "principle of publicity" and the concept of "open diplomacy" media-mediated public communication, preferably via the press, was defined as an important factor for the legitimization of the organization and politics of the League of Nations.
League of Nations' Work on Social Issues Visions, Endeavours and Experiments by 
Sigurd Hartz Rasmussen, senior assistant in the League of Nations Library from 1931-1940, self-published his memoir in 1986 under the title "My Journey Through the Twentieth Century: Things that Happened, People I Met".
Digitized by Professor Maurice Obstfeld, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Published online thanks to the permission of Sigurd Rasmussen's son, Erik Rasmussen.
