* 1927: Geneva Naval Conference

In 1927, Saitō was a member of the Japanese delegation at the Geneva Naval Conference on Disarmament, and he later became a privy councillor.

The Conference was a revival of the efforts which had gone into the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927.

The next phase of attempted naval arms control was the Second Geneva Naval Conference in 1932 ; and in that year, Italy retired two battleships, twelve cruisers, 25 destroyers, and 12 submarines — in all, 130, 000 tons of naval vessels .< ref >

War Plan Red was developed by the United States Army following the 1927 Geneva Naval Conference and approved in May 1930 by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Navy and updated in 1934 – 35.

The latter two, together with the Washington Naval Conference in 1921-22 and the Geneva Conferences ( 1927 and 1932 ), resulted in agreements between the major powers on navy vessel numbers, armaments and the rules of engagement in the inter-war period.

From 1925 to 1928, Pearson continued reporting on international events, including strikes in China, the Geneva Naval Conference, the Pan-American Conference in Havana, and the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Paris.

In 1995, St. John's Military Academy merged with Northwestern Military and Naval Academy ( NMNA ) in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to become St. John's Northwestern Military Academy on the Delafield campus.

He was also the leader of the Japanese delegation at the Geneva Naval Conference.

He was then seconded to the State Department as a Naval Advisor at the Geneva Disarmament Conference.

He was then assigned as a member of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations sponsored Geneva Naval Conference.

Other locations included Lake Forest Academy's campus, which was used as the Thorn Mansion, the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy's Geneva Lake campus, which was used for the military academy, with real Geneva Lake students portraying most of the academy cadets, and Catfish Lake in Eagle River, Wisconsin for the skating scene, with local children playing the skaters.

He also held positions at the Normal School in Aquila and the Naval School in Genoa, and, beginning in 1898, he gave a series of lectures at the Universities of Brussels, Pavia, Berne, Padua, Cagliari, and Geneva.

* 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

The text of this Convention is the result of some three years of intensive debate and negotiation at the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament at Geneva and at the United Nations.

As a result of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, Cambodia was able to bring about the withdrawal of the Viet Minh troops from its territory and to withstand any residual impingement upon its sovereignty by external powers.

At the Geneva Conference Eisenhower presented a proposal called " Open Skies to facilitate disarmament, which included plans for Russia and the U. S. to provide mutual access to each other's skies for open surveillance of military infrastructure.

Geneva formerly was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) for many years, and competed in the now-defunct American Mideast Conference.

From August 8 to August 20, 1955, the United Nations held the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, Switzerland.

The ILO organizes the International Labour Conference in Geneva every year in June, where conventions and recommendations are crafted and adopted.

The Eighth Revision Conference convened by WHO met in Geneva, from 6 to 12 July 1965.

The International Conference for the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases, convened by WHO, met in Geneva from 30 September to 6 October 1975.

* 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

* 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

The World Disarmament Conference was convened by the League of Nations in Geneva in 1932, with representatives from 60 states.

The concept of " mutual aerial observation " was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years.

At a Geneva Conference meeting with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin in 1955, President Eisenhower proposed that the United States and Soviet Union conduct surveillance overflights of each other's territory to reassure each country that the other was not preparing to attack.

From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions.

Kly and D. Kly, In pursuit of The Right to Self-determination, Collected Papers & Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Right to Self-Determination & the United Nations, Geneva 2000, G E N E V A 2000, preface by Richard Falk, Clarity Press, 2001.

It was not until after the 1955 United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva that programs were declassified and international scientific collaboration could take place.

In 1956, the United Nations held its first Conference on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS I ) at Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1960, the United Nations held the second Conference on the Law of the Sea (" UNCLOS II "); however, the six-week Geneva conference did not result in any new agreements.

At the Geneva Conference of 1954 France and the Communists agreed to divide Vietnam and hold elections in 1956.

* October 26 – 29 – The Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference are signed.

* July 21 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of Vietnam by July 1956.

The Conference has its permanent secretariat in Geneva.

The League of Nations ' World Economic Conference met at Geneva in 1927, concluding in its final report: " the time has come to put an end to tariffs, and to move in the opposite direction.

The first university entirely dedicated to the study of IR was the Graduate Institute of International Studies ( now the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ), which was founded in 1927 to form diplomats associated to the League of Nations, established in Geneva some years before.

During a naval conference of 1927 in Geneva, negotiations broke down after the United States refused to agree to the British argument that Britain needed a minimum of seventy cruisers to adequately defend the British Empire and its trade and communications.

Throughout the 1920s McCormick worked with Sanger on birth control issues, McCormick smuggled diaphragms from Europe to New York City for Sanger's Clinical Research Bureau, and in 1927 she hosted a reception of delegates attending the 1927 World Population Conference at her home in Geneva.

He was appointed as Consul to Basel in 1921, as Councillor in Copenhagen in 1924 and was stationed in Geneva from 1927.

He graduated from the University of Geneva in 1927 and received his doctorate in 1929.

Between 1926 and 1927 he was the Indian Delegate at the League of Nations in Geneva.

In 1926 Meyer established a firm with Hans Wittwer and produced his two most famous projects, for the Basel Petersschule ( 1926 ) and for the Geneva League of Nations Building ( 1926 / 1927 ).

), 1927 ; Chairman of Committee on redistribution of Royal Ordnance Factories, 1934 ; Chancellor of the Primrose League, 1931 ; Vice-Chairman, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1930 – 1932 ; Government Delegate to League of Nations, Geneva, 1933 ; Chairman Conservative Party Organisation, 1936 – 1942 ; Member General Medical Council, 1932 – 1947 ; 5th Bn Surrey Home Guard, 1940-1944.