Organisation of the League of Nations
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- Organisation of the League of Nations
- The General Assembly
- Met annually in Geneva, Switzerland as it was a neutral location during WW1 & location of red cross
- Each member state could send up three representatives to meetings of the assembly, and states were each allowed to cast one vote
- Main role was to decide general policy, to deal with the admission of new members of the League and to handle the organisations' finances
- Any decision taken by the General Assembly had to be unanimous
- The Council
- Non-Permanent Membrane
- Initially 4, elected every three years by General Assembly
- The first group was Belgium, Brazil, Greece, and Spain
- Initially 4, elected every three years by General Assembly
- Permanent Members
- 4 Original: Britain, France, Italy, and Japan
- The USA was to have been a permanent member too, but evidently decided not to join the League
- Germany became 5th in 1926
- 4 Original: Britain, France, Italy, and Japan
- Non-Permanent Membrane
- The Secretariat
- Carried out day-to-day work of the League - preparing its agenda, publishing reports and dealing with routine but vital matters
- Based in Geneva
- Met annually in Geneva, Switzerland as it was a neutral location during WW1 & location of red cross
- Directed by secretary general, the first of whom was the British diplomat Sir Eric Drummond, who held the post from 1919-1933
- Permanent Court of International Justice
- Based at The Hague in the Netherlands, the PCOIJ was designed to deal with legal disputes between states
- Consisted of 15 judges of different nationalities who were elected for a period of 9 years by the General Assembly
- The Court ran from 1922 to 1946
- Commissions and Committees
- Man Commissions dealt with issues such as the mandates, disarmament, refugees and slavery
- There were committees for matters relating to international labour, health, child welfare, drug problems and women's rights
- The General Assembly
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