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“League of Nations is a League of notions.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2016
  • World Wars

The pun compresses a serious historical judgement: that the League of Nations, founded in 1920, remained a body of fine "notions" — ideals, principles, aspirations — without the institutional teeth to make those notions into enforceable reality.

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  • The League as a Body of "Notions": Structural Weakness
  • Absent Powers, Present Weakness
  • From Notions to Naked Failure: The 1930s Crises
  • The Case Against "Complete Failure"

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