Failure_Of_The_Leaque_Of_Nations

Failure Of The Leaque Of Nations "Ineffectiveness in Action: The Failure of the League of Nations" by John Parks “A living thing is born.”1 With these words, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson laid out the first draft of the Covenant of the League of Nations before the Paris Peace Conference. At the end of the first World War in 1919, the entire globe was war weary and in need of relief system that could keep the peace, and Wilson’s ambitious idea to set up a League of Nations seemed almost too good to be true: it was to be an association of states designed to replace traditional power politics in an organization that would use peaceful negotiation to maintain international peace and security. The unifying principle of the League was the shared belief that acts of aggression and war were crimes against humanity and that it is the interest and the duty of every Member State to join in preventing it.2 While an excellent idea in theory, the League met with repeated problems in keeping its Member States in line with this one principle, the central point of League’s Covenant, simply because the nations had not adapted their foreign policy to change from a standpoint that they only league, italy, ethiopia, war, ibid, take, nations, states, security, italy’s, action, mussolini, international, against, selassie, member, italian, britain, yet, sanctions, peace, military, invasion, france, covenant, began, because, arms, truly, saw, own, germany, following, failure, before