The Saar Plebiscite: With a Collection of Official Documents, <i>by Sarah Wambaugh</i>

Florinsky, Michael T.; Wambaugh, Sarah

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“…This allowed Wambaugh to devote her attention to it and become an erudite expert and acknowledged advisor on all matters pertaining to plebiscites for the next decades. For instance, her research for the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference was published in 1920 as A Monograph on Plebiscites, with a Collection of Official Documents , followed by many other titles on the topic, such as La Pratique des plébiscites internationaux (1928), Plebiscites since the World War (1933), and The Saar Plebiscite (1940). In A Monograph on Plebiscites , Wambaugh also provided the sparse reasons for her initial motivation to investigate the historiographic, legal, and socio-political implications of referenda: James Brown Scott, the director of the Division of International Law of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, suggested to her to compile such a collection in 1917 (Wambaugh 1920, ix).…”

Section: Peripatetic Wanderer Of Frontiers: the Making Of Sarah Wamba...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With her alternative trajectory to ambassadorial arenas, Wambaugh could negotiate and conquer political terrain as a non-governmental attaché for the LoN and its transnational infrastructure. Camouflaged as a shadow or surrogate diplomat and seemingly separate from American political motivations, she earned worldwide respect for her plebiscite work (Merriam 1922; Briggs 1934; Mattern 1935; Florinsky 1940; Morgenthau 1940).…”

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Contested Territories in the Short Twentieth Century: Sarah Wambaugh (1882–1955), Plebiscites, and Gender

Wernitznig

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article deals with Sarah Wambaugh’s life and work concerning global territorial questions of border disputes and nationalities as well as minorities issues. Trained at Radcliffe College in the disciplines of international law and political science, Wambaugh engineered a somewhat unprecedented career for herself in diplomatic circles after the First World War, achieving a worldwide reputation as the foremost expert on plebiscites, especially in areas of post-war conflicts. By looking at three case studies, this contribution particularly emphasizes Wambaugh’s role as an extra-governmental analyst of these referenda at the intersections of gender and universal suffrage. Within the context of geographic demarcations, aspects of citizenship, national belonging or affiliation, and minority rights, palpably, were paramount. While integrating these parameters into her theoretical discourses, Wambaugh went a step further by also adding the element of the franchise for women as an imperative coefficient regarding the drawing of borderlines. Hence, the female voting corpus – in most cases of quantitative significance during the aftermaths of wars, due to the substantial decimation of the male population on battle fields – attained a pertinent part in referenda-based rights to self-determination, and Wambaugh paid credit to this fact in her activism and writings.

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Section: Peripatetic Wanderer Of Frontiers: the Making Of Sarah Wamba...mentioning

confidence: 99%