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Mary Kinnear, Woman of the World. Mark, McGeachy and International Cooperation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2004)
FROM THE AGE of 27, Ontario-born Mary McGeachy was based in Geneva, as an officer of the Information Section of the League of Nations. One of the largest bodies of the League's Secretariat, it gathered information from member states, and disseminated the League's ideals of inter-state cooperation and making international relations more democratic. Single, she had broad friendships. These included compatible Christian acquaintances from her days of learning English and History at the University of Toronto, to teaching high school students and mill girls in Hamilton and later to becoming a participant in international conferences and newspapers that eventually brought her to her career in Switzerland. She also shared the life and ideas of women internationalists, such as Natalie and Laura Dreyfus Barney, of Canadian reformist intellectuals, like J.W. Dafoe of the Winnipeg Free Press, with whom she corresponded for ten years, and cosmopolitan bureaucrats, such as the colleague Konni Zilliacus, rumoured to be her lover.
Hired directly by the Secretariat, and thus free from the direction of her country, she collated national data for journalists and League staff. She also ensured relations between the League and international women's organizations. Comprehensive inventories represent the main legacy of the League in many domains, from statistics on armaments to public accounts, as Martin Dubin and Yves Ghebali have... |
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