The Council of the League of Nations

The Council sat above the Assembly and met around five times a year. It was a far smaller group containing both permanent and non permanent members. They could impose a number of sanctions on countries.

Permanent members were the most powerful countries in the world and each of these had a veto. This meant they could vote to stop any action from being taken. All it would take is for one country not to agree to action and it would end.

The Council was the decision making body of the League and would hear the disputes of other countries. Should the discussions falter then the Council had a number of punishments they could hand down. The first was Moral Condemnation, this was like a telling off to a country and a demand that they should cease any action which they were taking. The Council could also use economic sanctions which restricted the trade of a nation. The idea behind this was that other countries would have to stop trading activities immediately. The final action that the Council could take was military force. Using this, the members of the League of Nations would send their armies to stop the aggressor state.