Three main headings: its achievements, the main reasons for its eventual eclipse, and the foundations which it provided for its successor, the United Nations Organizations.

The League of Nations was not the first attempt to establish institutions for international diplomacy and arbitration; between 1814 and 1914 there had been, under the generic description of cconcert of Europe¯, right congresses attended by heads of government.

The League of Nations performed two important functions. It provided a permanent frame work for inter-governmental consultation which was more regular and systematic than the ad hoc conferences of the nineteenth century.

It also extended the range of this framework to incorporate non-political as well as political bodies. The result was greater co-operation, made possible by the unprecedented use of the secretariat, with all its resources for gathering and collating information and statistics.

Despite experiencing severe difficulties and eventual collapse, the League achieved sev

Failure to give the council any corporate peace keeping powers confined the league to a rile of arbitrating between the lesser states.

Two attempts were made, during the 1920s and early 1930s, to make the League more effective as a peacekeeping organizations. The first was to reduce the level of international tension through the process of disarmament provided for in Article 8 of the covenant.

Italy was another power which had never really been committed to the league. As early as 1923 the British ambassador in Rome had vital necessities of her own future expansion. Mussolini certainly saw in the covenant an obstacle to his plans for revising the parsimonious treatment of Italy bye the Versailles settlement.

This can be illustrated by comparing the institutions of the League and the United Nations.

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