Table of Contents

Introduction
1: "Give Pause to the Hardiest Aggressor". A Guarantee of Peace, 1914-1917
2: "Much More than an Organization to Prevent War". Beyond the Guarantee of Peace, 1917-1918
3: "The Key to the Peace was the Guarantee of the Peace". The Creation of the League, 1918-1919
4: "In Default of an Immediate Realisation of a True League of Nations". The First Years of the League, 1919-1921
5: "A Genuine and Energetic League of Nations Policy". Lord Robert Cecil and the Treaty of Mutual Assistance, 1922-1923
6: "Upholding the Covenant and the Public Law of Europe". The Corfu Crisis of 1923
7: "The Wiser and Wider Security at which we are Ourselves Aiming". The Labour Government and the Geneva Protocol, 1924
8: "The Real Dividing Line between the Years of War and the Peace that is to Follow". Towards Locarno, 1924-1925
Conclusion

About the Author

Dr Peter J. Yearwood is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Papua New Guinea. He has previously worked for the University of Jos in Nigeria and is Joint Editor of South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture.