The League of Nations & international peace

• Bulgaria

  1925 - Failure & Success

  Greece invaded Bulgaria after Greek soldiers died on the border

  League forced Greek withdrawal & to pay compensation

  Seemed hypocritical after Corfu
• Permanent Central Opium Board

  Aim: to tackle the trade of illegal drugs

  Success - blacklisted 4 large companies

  Failure - some countries in the League didn't want to stop opium trade because they made a profit
• Economic & Financial Committee

  Aim: to improve living conditions

  Success - sent financial advisers to Austria and Hungary to rebuild their economies when they went bankrupt in 1921

  Failure - unable to cope with global depression after 1929
• International Labour Organisation

  Aim - to improve working conditions

  Success - in the 1920s death rate of workers on the Tanganyika railway reduced from 50+% to 4%

  Failure - in 1919 most members refused to stop children under 14 from working as it would be too expensive
• The Secretariat

  In charge of admin & arranging the League's desired actions