ABSTRACT
The functions assigned to the Council by the Covenant are in effect a recognition by the signatories of the necessity of an administrative authority. The powers, which are conferred upon this body are insufficient to enable it to deal effectively with the most important of the matters which are expressly brought within its constitutional cognizance. The existence of the League is largely due to the general recognition of the fact that the preservation of peace-a pre-eminently moral object-can be secured only by the instrumentality of regulated force. In the Council and Assembly of the League of Nations every chair is occupied by a representative of one of the states of the world. But it may well be devoutly hoped that there will always be room for the presence of the spirit of goodwill as the presiding genius in the citadel of peace.
