ABSTRACT
The League of Nations was established, largely on the initiative of President Wilson, in 1919, the Covenant being drafted at the Paris Peace Conference and subsequently being incorporated into all the treaties which made up the Versailles Settlement. The main institu-tions were the Council, comprising the major powers and some lesser states elected in rotation; the Assembly, in which all member states were represented; and the Secretariat, which acted as the League’s bureaucracy. Associated with the League, but not part of it constitutionally, were the Permanent Court of International Justice, and a series of specialist agencies, like the International Labour Organization. The League’s membership totalled forty-one in 1919, rising to fifty by 1924 and sixty by 1934.
