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The Covenant of the League of Nations was part of the Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 between the Allies of World War I and Germany. In order for the treaty to enter into force, it had to be deposited at Paris; in order to be deposited, it had to be ratified by Germany and any three of the five Principal Powers (the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and ...
The American absence in the League of Nations did not prevent the nation from becoming an official member of the United Nations, formed at the conclusion of the Second World War. The United States was one of five permanent members of the Security Council, with the other four countries the USSR, France, Nationalist China, and Britain. [15]
A map of the world in 1920–45, which shows the League of Nations members during its history. The League consisted of 42 founding members in November 1920. Six other states joined in its founding year (by December 1920), and seven more joined by September 1924, bringing the League's size to 55.
1919–1920 Japan: Nitobe Inazo: 1919–1926 Italy: Dionisio Anzilotti: 1920–1921 Germany: Albert Dufour-Feronce: 1927–1932 Italy: Giacomo Paulucci di Calboli: 1927–1932 Japan: Yotaro Sugimura 1927–1933 Germany: Ernst Trendelenburg: 1932–1933 United Kingdom: Francis Paul Walters: 1933–1939 Soviet Union: Vladimir Sokoline: 1937 ...
Articles 49 to 57 of the Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria (signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, 27 November 1919), placed under the guarantee of the League of Nations, 22 October I920. Articles 54 to 60 of the Treaty of Peace with Hungary (signed at Trianon on 4 June 1920), placed under guarantee of the League of Nations, 30 August 1921
LON founding member state from January 10, 1920. Belgium had sovereignty over one colony and one concession: Belgian Congo (Colony) Tientsin (Concession) Belgium administered one League of Nations mandate: Ruanda-Urundi (LON mandate from July 20, 1922. Administrative union with the Belgian Congo from March 1, 1926)
A second group, the "realists", rejected isolationism in favor of limited cooperation among nations with similar interests. They thought the League of Nations would be too strong. A third group, the "idealists", called for a League with far reaching authority. The three factions cooperated to help defeat the treaty.
The mandate system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by the victors of World War I. The article referred to territories which after the war were no longer ruled by their previous sovereign, but their peoples were not considered "able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world".