LON structure Flashcards
(10 cards)
Counclil
Had 4 permanent members (Brit, France, Japan, Italy), meant to also have USA
Met 5 times a year & in an emergency
Could take various actions if negotiation didn’t work: Moral condemnation, economic sanctions, military force (no army, troops supplied by member states)
Conference of Ambassadors
Not a formal part of the LON but worked closely with it
Informal meeting of more important countries in the LON
Made a lot of League’s decisions
Assembly
Where everyone met once a year
Could recommend action to the Council
Could vote on: adding members to League, budget of league, putting forward ideas to Council
All decisions had to be unanimous
Permanent Court of International Justice
Made up of judges from member countries
gave Legal advice to Assembly & Council
Could give decisions on border disputes
Name all Commissions/Agencies
Mandates commission,
refugees commission,
slavery commission,
Health committee
Rights of minorities
Financial committee
ILO
International labour organisation successes
Tried & failed to implement 48 hour working week
banned lead paint (USA, not League, continued to use it)
Established minimum wage levels in 77 countries
Sickness & unemployment benefits
Old age pensions
Commission for Refugees
Resettled over 500 000 POWs stranded in Russia after ww1
1922 created the Nansen Passport
Internationally recognised ID card for stateless refugees
1923 Found Jobs, homes etc. for 1,5 million refugees fleeing violence in Turkey
The Health Organisation
Dealt with specific health risks such as refugees fleeing Turkey
Investigated causes & prevention of epidemics
Combated the typhus epidemic in Russia
Did research on diseases like leprosy
reduced leprosy & Malaria worldwide
Mandates Commission
Meant to Ensure mandates were not treated as colonies
Main principles were to not annex territory & to develop the territory for the benefit of it’s people
Historian Susan Pedersen argued that colonial administration in mandates didn’t differ from colonial administration elsewhere
Colonial powers just spoke about their mandates differently
Mandates divided into 3 groups based on level of development
Run mostly by imperial powers
Temporary slavery commission
Made to conduct formal investigation of global slavery bc NGOs trying to combat slavery were ignored by colonial authorities
States with history of slavery had to describe how they had combatted it & the effects, but the responses varied greatly in reliablity, many str8 up lying
Britain didn’t properly address slavery in Sudan bc of risk of unrest
Lead to 1926 Slavery Convention
TSC report said by 1925 slavery abolished in all Christian majority countries
