The Phillimore Report was produced by the Phillimore Committee that enquired into proposals for a

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. It was chaired by Lord Phillimore and included

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, John Holland Rose,

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, William Tyrrell, and

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. The committee was established in January 1918 after being suggested to

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by Lord Robert Cecil.George W. Egerton, ''Great Britain and the Creation of the League of Nations'' (The University of North Carolina Press, 1978), pp. 37-38. It submitted its report on 20 March 1918 and the Cabinet discussed it on 24 December, in which the idea of a League was endorsed.

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