Foreign Policy Association
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| Non-profit educational/cultural organization | |
| Founded | 1918 (as League of Free Nations Association) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Website | www.fpa.org |
The Foreign Policy Association (formerly known as the League of Free Nations Association) is a non-profit organization founded in 1918 dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. The Foreign Policy Association aims to spread global awareness and understanding of foreign policy issues. Its President is Noel Lateef.
It was founded in 1918 as the "League of Free Nations Association". Under the chairmanship of journalist Paul Underwood Kellogg, it was formed by 141 Americans to support US President Woodrow Wilson's efforts to achieve a just peace, with his famous speech and proposal of the Fourteen Points, which included the idea of a world organization, later to be called the League of Nations. It was also to increase support for United States membership in the world body that was then being discussed and laid out in the Versailles Treaty and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, with the "Big Four" representatives dominating the many representatives of the nations formerly at war: President Woodrow Wilson of the US, Prime Minister David Lloyd-George of the United Kingdom, Premier Georges Clemenceau of the France and Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy following the Armistice ending combat in World War I. Interestingly, it also included future influential Americans from both sides of the political spectrum, John Foster Dulles and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Following the failure of the United States Senate to ratify the Treaty and membership in the League during various debate sessions with votes taken in 1919 and early 1920, and also later through the results of the Presidential Election of 1920, it was later reconstituted in 1923 as the Foreign Policy Association with a commitment to the careful study of all sides of international questions affecting the US and to further spread that education and knowledge throughout an informed citizenry.
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