Phillimore Report

The Phillimore Report was produced by the Phillimore Committee that enquired into proposals for a League of Nations. It was chaired by Lord Phillimore and included Albert Pollard, John Holland Rose, Julian Corbett, Eyre Crowe, William Tyrrell, and Cecil Hurst.[1]

Lord Phillimore

The committee was established in January 1918 after being suggested to Arthur Balfour by Lord Robert Cecil.[2]

It submitted its report on 20 March 1918 and the Cabinet discussed it on 24 December, in which the idea of a League was endorsed.

Notes
  1. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1942/aug/05/international-reconstruction
  2. George W. Egerton, Great Britain and the Creation of the League of Nations (The University of North Carolina Press, 1978), pp. 37-38.
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