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League of Nations - Aims, Membership and Powers
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The League of Nations was established as an international peace-keeping organisation in the aftermath of WWi. The LoN was the brainchild of American President, Woodrow Wilson. The aims of the League were disarmament, discouragement of aggression, improvements to living and working conditions across the world and the encouragement of peace through collective security. Italy, France and Britain and Japan were members of the permanent council of the League. America did not join, as the Senate refused to support Wilson's proposal, preferring to remain isolationist.
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The New Member
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Geneva Branch of the Blimp family: "Gad,sir, can't think what the Committee is up to, lettin' a Russian into the Club. The feller's obviously no gentleman."
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Republished in Years of Wrath p.20. Commentary: When Germany began rapidly to rearm in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, France turned to Russia. The former pariah Bolshevik (personified here in Foreign Commissar Litvinov) joined the League of Nations on the initiative of France (Barthou) with the approval of Britain (Simon). This attempt to recreate the pre-war balance of power, after Germany and Japan had withdrawn from Geneva, met with protests from Switzerland and Poland and from individual anti-Bolsheviks and pro-Fascists everywhere.
John Allsebrook was British Foreign Secretary 1931-1935
Louis Barthou was French Foreign Minister Barthou had, in 1934, proposed an 'Eastern Locarno', under which Russia would come to the aid of France, Poland and Czechoslovakia should any be attacked. Poland and Czechoslovakia objected to any Soviet involvement, and Germany refused to sign, as did Britain, making the treaty worthless. France was then determined to include Russia in the League, in a permanent seat, as an alternative alliance against Germany, which, along with Japan, had quit the League in 1933.
After 17 days of heated negotiation, mainly an attempt to convince Poland, Canada, Belgium. Holland, Jugoslavia and Switzerland, Russia joined the League in October 1934.
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