The shock of Progress inside and the First World War outside “ A sense of insecurity leads to an increase of armaments; an increase in The concepts for a mechanism the League of Nations armaments further aggravates the sense of to improve international relations had already started insecurity; and, unless the circle to emerge before the First World War, but the scale of the can be broken, the process goes inevitably conflict and of its consequences spurred governments to forward. The overburdened nations can then create a formal framework for World War I resulted in: Covenant of As early as 1920, the League ¬ 1920 - The Disarmament Section is ¬ 1923 - The Draft Treaty of Mutual international cooperation. began creating the necessary established in the Secretariat by the find no release from their mutual distrust Assistance is presented to the ¬ 10 million dead, 20 million wounded the League of Nations, Article 8: mechanisms to address In 1919, the Paris Peace disarmament and produced First Assembly of Conference negotiations resulted 9 million war orphans, 5 million Fourth Assembly of the League by The Members of the League recognise some positive results, notably except in open conflict.” in the signature of the Peace war widows, 10 million refugees. the 1925 Geneva Convention the League of Nations. the Temporary Mixed Commission, Treaty of Versailles, which that the maintenance of peace requires Arthur Henderson, opening speech of the World Disarmament and Protocol, which were incorporated the Covenant of ¬ 1920-1925 - Creation and activities Conference, 2 February 1932. but no agreement is reached. ¬ The development and use of more the reduction of national armaments to reached within this framework. the League of Nations, the first From the moment of the creation The draft is based on the idea intergovernmental organization devastating armaments, such as the lowest point consistent with national The Convention for the of the Temporary Mixed Commission of the League of Nations, mandated to promote Supervision of International that war as an instrument of it was clear that its primary for the Reduction of Armaments, international cooperation and heavy artillery, tanks, airplanes safety and the enforcement by common Trade in Arms and Ammunition purpose was to prevent war and aggression must be regarded to achieve international peace, and Implements of War was mandated to address the political, and chemical weapons. that disarmament thus action of international obligations. security and disarmament. adopted to regulate the arms social and economic problems as an international crime. It constituted an essential element trade with a system of public As the pre-war arms race was ¬ Total expenses of 337 billion dollars, The Council, taking account of proposes a general international of the new international order export licenses. However, related to disarmament. considered a key factor in the a sum nearly equal to the combined that the victorious nations the geographical situation and as it was not ratified by The necessary connection system of collective security. outbreak of the war, the Peace wished to build. the signatory countries, it ¬ 1920-1932 - Creation and activities of between disarmament and Treaties included important pre-war wealth of England, France, circumstances of each State, shall Although not the first attempt never came into force. the implementation of a global ¬ 1924 - Protocol for the Pacific clauses aiming to prevent the Permanent Advisory Commission Germany and Russia. towards international formulate plans for such reduction for collective security system had further military aggression. The Protocol for the on Military, Naval and Air Questions, been recognized from the very Settlement of International Disputes, disarmament – in 1899 the First the consideration and action of the Prohibition of the Use in War The German army was restricted ¬ Up to 7 billion dollars borrowed by beginning by the Members of the Hague Conference had tried of Asphyxiating, Poisonous, also referred to as the Permanent also called the Geneva Protocol. by the Treaty of Versailles to a several Governments. League of Nations: no nations France, Great-Britain and Italy from the to establish arbitration for the or Other Gases and of maximum of 100,000 men, and wanted to disarm without their Inspired by the Draft Treaty of pacific settlement of international Bacteriological Methods of Armaments Commission, the army devoted exclusively to United States to finance the war. Such plans shall be subject to security being guaranteed by disputes - the Covenant of the Warfare prohibiting the use in Mutual Assistance, it attempts the maintenance of order and to a body of technical experts international mechanisms, More loans contracted after League of Nations for the first reconsideration and revision at least war of poisonous gases was border control. The manufacture especially in case of aggression. to create a complete system time provided nations with an ratified by 36 states by appointed by the members of or import of poison gases was the conflict to rebuild infrastructure agreed-upon global framework every ten years. the end of 1932. After unsuccessful attempts in of compulsory arbitration and prohibited, reserves were strictly the Council of the League. for disarmament. 1923 and 1924, the Locarno limited, tanks and heavy artillery and economies. After these plans shall have been The League, however, was not response by common action to The Covenant of the League of Pacts, which established forbidden, the navy reduced a universal body, not least due ¬ 1921-1922 - The Washington Naval Nations (Articles 1, 8, 9, and 23) collective security mechanisms acts of aggression. The Protocol and submarines prohibited. ¬ Germany required by the Treaty adopted by the several Governments, to the absence of the United Conference and Treaty between the at a regional level and resulted provided a very explicit States, which did not become is signed by 14 states but set In the Treaties of Neuilly, of Versailles to pay 226 billion the limits of armaments therein fixed in the admission of Germany definition of disarmament, a member even though it was USA, Great Britain, Japan, France Trianon and Saint-Germain, to the League in 1926, were Reichmarks in reparations, tightly bound together the shall not be exceeded without the a major economic and military aside in 1925 in favor of a partial the armed forces of Austria, and Italy succeeds in a limitation a very positive impulse for issues of collective security and power. As a result of this lack Hungary and Bulgaria primarily for the destruction concurrence of the Council. the decision taken in 1925 by application of the regional system, disarmament and mandated of truly global membership, and of capital ships (battleships, battle were similarly limited. the members of the League of caused in France and Belgium. the Council of the League to also due to political realities embodied in the Locarno Pacts. The Members of the League agree that cruisers and aircraft carriers). Nations Council to convene a As Clemenceau, the French formulate plans accordingly. which dictated that international the manufacture by private enterprise world disarmament conference. ¬ 1925 - Locarno Pacts, which representative at the Paris The creation of the League developments must align with ¬ 1922 - Publication of the Statistical peace negotiations, promised was a promise for a new era in of munitions and implements of war national sovereign interests, The signatories of the final included a series of treaties of in June 1919, this requirement The League of Nations relations between nations, but some important negotiations Enquiry on Armaments, the first Protocol of the Locarno is open to grave objections. The mutual guarantees and arbitration, was, however, considered the links between the issue of and decisions also took series of armament data ever Conference declared that only a first step towards a disarmament and the Peace Council shall advise how the evil effects place outside of the League, “they undertake to give their are signed by representatives of reduction and limitation of Covenant and Treaties, which were the result of such as the Washington and collected on a global scale. sincere co-operation to the armaments to prevent wars: compromises among the victors, attendant upon such manufacture can London Naval Conferences. work relating to disarmament Great Britain, France, Germany, once a collective security but which were not accepted by be prevented, due regard being had ¬ 1924 - Publication of the first already undertaken by the Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, system was implemented, the the vanquished, would prove League of Nations and to limitations and reductions Disarmament to be a critical obstacle for to the necessities of those Members Armament Year Book of the League seek the realization thereof and Poland. would apply to all nations. future disarmament efforts. of Nations, published until 1938. in a general agreement.” of the League which are not able ¬ 1928 - In August, fifteen States sign By the close of 1925, everything to manufacture the munitions and ¬ 1925 - Signature of the Convention seemed to point in a positive the Kellogg–Briand Pact prohibiting “ The Parliaments and taxpayers of implements of war necessary for their for the Supervision of International direction: economies had improved, currencies had the use of war as “an instrument the various countries will not need “ The Covenant, by recognising