The aims of the League were also too idealistic. They show this in the Covenant; as one of the points is: the acceptance of obligations to go to war. So if another country invaded an ally you would not be to declare war on them. The League would have wanted to sort it by either cutting of trade routes to that country, or would of sent a person to try and get them out by negotiate
The League also thought that if a member country broke the rules the other members would kick the country out, however this did not happen in 1923 when 5 Italian surveyors were shot and killed on the Greek side of the Greek-Albanian frontier. Mussolini, the new Italian leader took advantage of this situation and invaded Corfu. This completely went against the League. However the other member nations did nothing as Mussolini was quickly gaining power and did not want to get on the wrong side of him so of
course nothing happened. This again showed that the League was too idealistic because they thought that all the member nations would listen to what they said and of course they did not all the time.
The League was based around Woodrow Wilson’s of America 14 points; however America was not even in the League. So it was based around a countries ideas that weren’t even there to guide them. They thought that they could run the League the way Woodrow wanted to without his guidance to help them.
The Assembly met once a year. The assembly was too large to react quickly to a big international crisis, this was a rather idealistic because they were meant to help all countries and if something happened within that year then they could not deal with it.
There was also a Permanent Court Of Justice which settled international disputes like fishing rights and frontiers. However all the countries and to agree in advance to accept the courts verdict, this was too idealistic because they thought that everybody would agree to what they wanted.
However in some ways the League was not too idealistic; like in their humanitarian work. They managed to help refugees and former prisoners of war get back to their home country. Also they blacklisted four German, Dutch, French and Swiss companies which were involved in illegal drug trade, so that no other company would trade with them and stop the drug trade. This worked and people stopped trading with them.
They also set worker rights, in Tanganyika a railway was being built and the death of African workers was at 50%, they reduced this to 4%. Also they limited the hours that small children were. However most countries did not follow these guidelines. So maybe this was too idealistic for the times.
