The League
of Nations was the first ever experimentation on world peace after the First
World War. The three main factors of the League and their functions were as
follows:
Assembly: The
assembly of the League was an Assembly of nations in which all the member
nations were given membership. The President of the Assembly was elected from
among the members. Each nation had only one voting right.
Functions:
-
(1)
To look after the plans and
programmes of the League.
(2)
To exercise control over other
branches of the League.
(3)
To discuss the issues that disturbs
world peace.
The
Committee:
The
Committee means the executive body of the League. It included five permanent
and four non permanent members. England, France, Italy, Japan and Germany were
permanent members while four non permanent members were elected by the Assembly
from the representatives of member nations. The meetings were held as per need.
Every decision needed to be passed by majority.
Functions:
-
(1)
To implement the decisions of the
League.
(2)
To solve the crisis among nations.
(3)
To control Secretariat.
(4)
To handle any issue relating to
world peace.
Secretariat: The
Secretariat was the office of the League of Nations headed by Secretary
General. He was appointed by the Committee with the approval of the Assembly.
Secretary was responsible for the administration of the League of Nations.
Functions:
-
(1)
To register complaints and collect
information about the grievances.
(2)
To keep the documents of the
administrative work.
(3)
To pass the information of the
decision of the League to all the nations.
(4)
To look after the regular administration
of the League.
