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Was the League of Nations a total failure?

David McGill considers to what extent the League of Nations was a total failure

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Woodrow Wilson saw the League of Nations as the key to preventing future conflict. It was a bold idea, typical of the idealistic approach the US president took to trying to solve the seemingly perennial problem of European conflict. He believed that the League of Nations would act not only as a forum for discussing problems and defusing potential conflict, but also as a collective enforcing institution, acting collaboratively against aggressors to defend the ‘rule of international law’.

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