The idealist of the 10th point - the collective security concept.

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The idealist of the 10th point - the collective security concept

There’s writing in the 10th Article of the League of Nations: “The members of the league undertake to preserve against external aggression the territory and existing independence of all members of the League. In case of threat of danger the Council of the League shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.” I really like this point! But I can’t refuse that it’s a very idealistic idea.

To set up the League of Nation, the more countries join, the better. But if there are not a lot of countries that join the League, then the League won’t work (as what happened in the history). Many countries didn’t want to join the League, because there weren’t many profits to get! Every country who joins the League has to be disarm and if the country doesn’t listen the League or when the country leaves the League, the countries in League of Nation will stop to trade with that country and will send armies to deal with that country, so if there’s not many benefits, then why shall the countries join the League of Nation? The 10th point’s main aim is to make our world stable and to have more peace, but if not many of the countries will join the League or we can say when the League’s power is very poor, then the world will stay as same as before and the League will seems as it doesn’t exists! (Because it’s for nothing and nobody can depends on it.)

Yes! The League of Nation is set up and its 10th point is really VERY good! But what if the countries in the League won’t listen them? Of course, they’ve got already a way how to deal with them, but what if the country doesn’t care about it? What if the country is very rich and it thinks it doesn’t need the League at all? What if they want to be independent? (As same as what Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries did.) There’s many problems which is very difficult to solve, and especially when the League didn’t have enough money, ...

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In the 10th point there was a sentence where’s writing that in case of threat of danger the Council of the League shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled. So the main idea, the main support will be supported by the League of Nation or we can say that everything will be decided by the League of Nation. Just because of this point, perhaps many countries will try to buy over as much partners (countries) as possible to have more hands (sides) in order to have more power while voting or deciding something. And so the League of Nation in fact is not as light (fear) as what citizens can see outside, but the backside can be very dark.

Wilson made the League of Nation, but himself – the USA is not involved in the League. He didn’t thought about this point actually before. He didn’t thought what REALLY will happen in the future while he’s not joining the League! The League has NO power at all or VERY weak power, not enough money and strength! The only two strongest countries in the League were Britain and France, but they both had been weakened by the First World War. So the League of Nation couldn’t deal with the world’s chaos. And even France is afraid of Germany that they won’t break another war again, because as the League of Nation said, every country who joins the League has to disarm, France didn’t have enough power to protect from Germany and because of the weakness of the League, they were afraid that the League won’t be able to protect them and Britain is not going to help them either. In other way, Britain was looking for rebuilding their trade and not to be an international police force. So because the League of Nation was in a very bad condition, the countries that wanted to join the League won’t join, because they could see how weak the League is, and that if they’ll join, they won’t get any benefit, because the League won’t be able to protect or help them in any cases.

I think the 10th point of the League of Nation is really very idealistic, because it’s very difficult to be set up and to make it perfect.