League of Nations Union: Text from London Review of Books

"Almost forgotten today, the LNU was one of the largest and most vibrant voluntary associations of the interwar years. With around 400,000 individual members organised in some 3000 local branches at its height in 1931, it rivalled both the major political parties and the churches in its size and reach. Millions of Britons joined LNU branches at some point in their lives; virtually all of them would have heard speeches or radio broadcasts by Cecil, the Oxford classicist Gilbert Murray, the suffragist and internationalist Kathleen Courtney, or some other LNU luminary. Then there's the LNU's most famous effort, the 'Peace Ballot' of 1935, in which 38 per cent of adult citizens took part and which – so the LNU argued – demonstrated the public's overwhelming support for the League's ideals. Although a United Nations Association emerged after the LNU's demise in the late 1930s, it never gained such a following."
from 'London Review of Books' by 8 August 2013.

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