Conducting diplomacy for the League: the missions of Secretariat officials

Throughout the interwar period, officials of the League of Nations Secretariat travelled across the world to conduct activities for the international organization. Building on the emerging literature on the work of the first generation of international civil servants, this article will show how these missions became an integral part of the work of the League’s Information Section to conduct a form of diplomacy, and bring the work of the League in the public eye. In the reports they wrote, officials tried to capture the state of public opinion on the League and described what they did to improve it.