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Hill, William Martin, born in 1905, Ireland.

He began working for the League of Nations Secretariat on 03 October 1927.
He was the author or co-author of many League of Nations and United Nations books and documents.

Career:

• member of the Economic and Financial Section 1927-34 and 1939-45;
• personal assistant to Under Secretary-General Walters 1934-39;
• Secretary to the Bruce Committee in 1939;
• member of the Secretariat at Princeton;
• under-Secretary-General of inter-agencies affairs;
• Director and consultant at UNITAR;
• representative of WIPO to the United Nations Headquarters in New York (his last post).

He actively participated in:

• the San Francisco Conference in 1945;
• the transfer of the League of Nations assets and powers to the United Nations;
• the United Nations first achievements in London;
• the repatriation of Greek children and other refugees at the end of the war;
• the founding of the United Nations University;
• the founding of the World Tourism Organization, for which he played a key role.

He wrote a certain number of books on the immunities and privileges of League of Nations officials, the economic and financial organization of the League of Nations, etc.

Estonia Permanent Delegation to the League of Nations

The Republic of Estonia became a member of the League of Nations in 1921.

The Permanent Delegation to the League of Nations was formed in February 1931. The permanent delegate was at the same time the head of a legation (Rome and Bern, later London and Bern). The office in Geneva was directed by a councillor (Johannes Kôdar).

Selter, Karl (1898-1958)

Estonian politician.

• 1933-1938 Minister of Finances;
• 1938-1939 Foreign Affairs Minister;
• 1939-1940 Delegate to the League of Nations.

Karl Selter was the last Estonian representative to the League of Nations (appointed in 1939). He stayed in Geneva during World War II and carried on his activities there, bearing the title of a permanent representative of Estonia. Unfortunately the war made his communication with other Estonian exile-diplomats rather random. It seems Selter was the least active of the Baltic representatives.

Prince Firuz Nosratdoleh (1889-1936).
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Persia in 1919 and 1920, delegate of Persia to the League of Nations during this period.

Born in 1889, Firuz Mirza Firuz, son of Abd al-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and Ezat al-Dowleh, completed his primary and secondary education successively in Tehran and Beirut in St. Joseph Jesuit School, and at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris.

He returned to Iran in 1905 and was appointed Deputy Governor of Kerman in 1906, replacing his father who returned to Tehran on the eve of the Constitutional revolution.

In 1911, he returned to Paris to study International Law with the famous French jurist de la Pradelle and completed his doctoral dissertation on the question of The Sultanate of Oman in the Persian Gulf. He returned to Iran in 1914.

He was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Mostofi al-Mamalek in 1915, and Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Vosuq al-Dowleh in 1916 and a second time in 1918. He participated in the negotiations concerning the August 1919 Agreement with Great Britain.

Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1919, he accompanied Ahmad Shah on state visits to Paris and London, and submitted the matter of Iran's borders to the Peace Conference of Versailles. His efforts were in vain due to British opposition.

In 1920, following the Soviet invasion of Iranian territory, he made an appeal to the League of Nations. He remained in Europe after the fall of Vosuq al-Dowleh.

On his return to Iran on the eve of the coup d'état perpetrated by Seyyed Zia al-Din in February 1921, he was arrested and temporarily detained along with his father and brother Abbas Mirza Salar Lashkar.

From 1921 to 1923, he headed the Foreign Affairs and Financial Commissions of the Fourth Majles from Kermanchah, and became governor of Fars in 1923.

He presided over the same Commissions when elected a second time to the Fifth Majles from Kermanchah.

Minister of Justice from 1924, he did not participate in the Constituent Assembly which voted the end of the Qajar dynasty and the installation of Sardar Sepah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, under the name of Reza Chah.

In 1926, whilst Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Mostofi al-Mamalek, he initiated the creation of the National Bank.

On suspicion of having participated in the insurrections of Fars in 1928, he was dismissed from his functions as Minister of Finance and, on the orders of Reza Chah, put under house arrest. In 1929, he was arrested and convicted of corruption charges. Pardoned by Reza Chah, he abandoned politics and retired from public life. He was assassinated in 1936 on Reza Chah's orders.