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From Geneva to Washington: The lived internationalism of Walter Kotschnig between the League of Nations and the United Nations, 1925–45

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This paper explores the career of the internationalist Walter Kotschnig between the two world wars. Born in Austria in 1901, Kotschnig spent much of the 1920s and 1930s working in Geneva with a range of international bodies before he moved to the United States in 1936, where he would later work with...

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ISSN: 0707-5332 1949-6540
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