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===League of Nations=== Lester returned to Geneva in 1937 to become Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations. In 1940, he became Secretary General of the body (he became the League's leader a year after the beginning of [[World War II]] which showed that the League had failed its primary purpose). The League had only 100 employees, including guards and janitors, out of the original 700. Lester remained in Geneva throughout the war and kept the League's technical and humanitarian programs in limited operation for the duration of the war. In 1946, he oversaw the League's closure and turned over the League's assets and functions to the newly-established [[United Nations]].
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