The Successes and Failures of the Locarno Treaties

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During the 1920s, The League of Nations had many problems to resolve. Although, not all were properly successes. Commonly regarded as a 'failure', The League did have a few bright moments. Mostly, the successes are usually over-looked by because of the many failures and mistakes made. The League were best at border disputes as this may be the simplest and easiest issue to resolve. One major unfortunate failur may be the fact that America was no longer part of the League, leaving Britan, France and other countries alone in charge. At first, the League was doomed to fail from the first moment. This is for a number of reasons. One of the first failures of the Leage was in Corfu, during the year of 1923. An Italian general named Tellini was murdered while he was doing some work with his team for the League in France. Mussolini, the Italian leader, was extremely angry with the Greek, who had no idea who killed the general. His revenge was invading the Greek island of Corfu. Frightened, the Greeks asked the League for some help. To resolve the issue, the League condemned Mussolini and got him to leave the island. Also, the Greeks were made to give money to the League. Unfortunately, Mussolini had refused to accept the decisions of the League and refused to leave Corfu. So, the League had to change their decisions to fix the problem. Greece was told to apologise to Mussolini, and pay the money to Italy, to cover the costs of Tellini's death. The decision was accepted and Greek and Mussolini did as they were asked. This decision was a failure as it showed how weak the League of Nations were and how they had little power over everyone, making it hard to control any chaotic problems. Another example of a failure is in Poland, 1921. The Poles had invaded Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The League had commaded Poland to withdraw and Poland had rejected the order. From

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