ABSTRACT
Article 10 of the Covenant of the League of Nations stated that all member states of the organization commit themselves to respect and maintain the territorial integrity and political independence of the others against any aggression from abroad. It was precisely the article that had stopped the entry of the United States in the League of Nations, given the resounding US Republican opposition in the Senate to ratifying the Treaty of Versailles. The order of Versailles and the liberal internationalism represented by the League of Nations were completely buried in Spain, a stage on which the evidence of a new general war was reflected. The policy of non-intervention and the committee of the same name operated de facto as an intervention that was harmful to the government of the Spanish Republic, legally constituted and internationally recognized, and denied the Republic its rights of self-defense in violation of international law.
