One forerunner to it was an organization founded by Frederic Passy and William Cremer, the IPU. It set up the Permanent Central Opium Board and the Slavery Commission. Though there was "no precedent for a Head of State to address it," the use of mustard gas during the invasion of Abyssinia by Italy was cited as justification during a 1936 session featuring Haile Selassie. Article 16 of its charter called for its member nations to defend against any aggression, while Article 22 divided certain territories into mandates. 
One forerunner to it was an organization founded by Frederic Passy and William Cremer, the IPU. It set up the Permanent Central Opium Board and the Slavery Commission. Though there was "no precedent for a Head of State to address it," the use of mustard gas during the invasion of Abyssinia by Italy was cited as justification during a 1936 session featuring Haile Selassie. Article 16 of its charter called for its member nations to defend against any aggression, while Article 22 divided certain territories into mandates. Stipulated in Woodrow Wilson's fourteenth point, name, FTP, this organization that was set up after the Treaty of Versailles, the predecessor to the United Nations.
One forerunner to it was an organization founded by Frederic Passy and William Cremer, the IPU.
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