THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS -1920
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In the flames of World War I, Europe was consumed. It made the western countries to realize some international organization must be set up to prevent war in future.
On the initiative of Woodrow Wilson, the President of USA, in January, 1919 a Peace Conference was held in Paris and the representatives of forty two countries took part in it.
A council of ten with two representatives each from America, Britain, France, Italy and Japan was formed.
They worked hard to make the council function well. But Francis Clemenceau of France, Lloyd George of England, Woodrow Wilson of America and Orlando of Italy, played a major role in the conference.
The League of Nations was founded on the basis of their ideas.
In the Paris Peace Conference a suggestion was given for the establishment of an organization of nations.
It was thought that only such an organization could prevent any future wars in the world. Before the foundation of such an organization, other institutions also came up.
They were:-
The League of Nations Society (1915),The world League for Peace (1917),and The League of free nations Association (1918) and the League of Nations Union.
On the 14th February, 1919 the Peace Conference examined a note on maintaining peace in the world.
According to it on January, 20th 1920, the League of Nations was officially founded with its headquarters in Geneva,Switzerland.