The Gathering Storm, Redux - League of Nations

[Lumine]

League of Nations - 1938

COUNCIL: The current permanent members are France, Britain, Italy, and Japan.

MEMBERS in 1938: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Republic of China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Greater Serbia, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, India (Dominion), Italy, Iraq, Japan, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Union of South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela.

WITHDRAWALS since 1933: German Reich, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and the Irish Free State. Albania, Austria and Yugoslavia have ceased to exist, the latter of which has split in three entities with current membership (Slovenia, Croatia and Greater Serbia).

1937 MOTIONS

-Canadian, to condemn civilian deaths, promote civilian evacuations, and medical treatment for civilians and POWs in conflicts: Passed.

-Canadian, to commit to self-determination and liberty, prevent sectarian conflicts and ethnic strife, and send international observers to the Balkans, Austria and Far East:

-Japanese, to create a famine relief program and send proactive relief to conflict zones in China: Defeated, with a Canadian veto.

-Irish, to bring military force to prevent the Austro-German union, occupy the Saar and Rhineland, and institute sanctions on Germany: Defeated, with a Polish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, French, and Canadian veto.

-Irish, to send military forces to Iran and Iraq against the British Empire: Defeated, with a Canadian, Bulgarian, Polish, French, and Italian veto.

-Japanese, to expel the Irish Free State from the League: Void by Irish withdrawal.

-Spanish, to cease hostilities between the UK, Turkey, Iraq and Iran: Not voted upon..

-International, to allow entry of Slovenia and Croatia into the League: Passed.

-Albanian, to King Zog as the legitimate government of Albania: Defeated, with a Canadian and Italian veto.

[NewYorkExpress]

A motion:

-To compel the government of Lithuania to take part in binding arbitration with the governments of Germany and Poland to settle their disputes, to be adjucated by this League of Nations.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

A MOTION
To the League of Nations

The League of Nations resolves

To accept the Mongolian People's Republic as a full Member of the League.

[NewYorkExpress]

Abyssinia votes AYE on the Soviet motion.

[Kuumo]

China votes NAY.

[Kuumo]

A MOTION
To the League of Nations

The League of Nations resolves

In light of its domestic human rights abuses and promotion of subversive organizations internationally,

To expel the Soviet Union from the League.

Wellington Koo

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The French Republic Abstains on the Soviet Motion.

The French Republic Vetoes the Chinese Motion.

[NewYorkExpress]

Abyssinia vetoes the Chinese motion.

[KaiserDave]

Italy votes AGAINST the Soviet motion
Italy votes FOR the Chinese motion

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Bulgaria votes AGAINST the Soviet motion
Bulgaria votes FOR the Chinese motion

[Continential]

South Africa votes for the Chinese motion, and against the Soviet motion.

[Continential]

A MOTION
To the League of Nations

The League of Nations resolves

To ENDORSE the creation of a Jewish Homeland in the Levant.

Prime Minister Jan Smuts

[LAKISYLVANIA]

The USSR VETOES the South African motion

The USSR is welcome to offer a homeland to the Jewish in its own territory. Secondly, the Levant should have its own right to determine over their future, that's not up to South Africa or League of Nations to decide.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

The USSR VETOES the South African motion

The USSR is welcome to offer a homeland to the Jewish in its own territory. Secondly, the Levant should have its own right to determine over their future, that's not up to South Africa or League of Nations to decide.

Considering that our former good friends in the Soviet Union have decided that the Sovereign territory of the Kingdom of Rumania is something that is for their taking. We are not surprised that they believe that the Jew doesn't deserve their own homeland and should be subdued within the USSR.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Given Romania has repressed their people and workers, we believe that we do have the right to liberate your people.

Given Romania's previous signing of the anti-comintern pact, the USSR doesn't consider the Romanian government exactly good friends.

It's the unwill of the Romanian government to cooperate, the repression of Romanian workers and rights that has led us doing the actions we believe we need to do to liberate Romanians.

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Eleazar Lopez, President of Venezuela; and Oscar Benavides, President of Peru, hereby give notice to the League of Nations of Venezuela and Peru's intent to immediately withdraw from the organization.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

Given Romania's previous signing of the anti-comintern pact, the USSR doesn't consider the Romanian government exactly good friends.

Would the Soviet delegation like to cite where the Kingdom of Rumania is a signatory to this so called pact? It would seem if anything you have pushed a friendly/neutral power away and are encouraging people into a course of action one would not otherwise have been obliged to take.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky on the Polish invasion of Lithuania
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics condemns the Polish invasion of Lithuania as a violation of the principles of international law and an act of aggression. We share the sorrow of the Lithuanian people who have been subjected to such a heavy trial.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky on the breach of Belgian neutrality
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics condemns the German decision to violate Belgian neutrality once again. The Belgians didn't want to be part of any war, and their decision to remain neutral should have been respected. We regret the loss of many Belgian lives due to German agression.

USSR also invades a sovereign nation without provocation or just cause yet, decides it has a moral right to pontificate to the international community about the actions it has also taken. While fabricating its own propaganda to justify itself to the world. I'll repeat the premiers words to the Soviet delegation with some liberty in rewording.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Kingdom of Rumania condemns the Polish Soviet invasion of Lithuania Rumania as a violation of the principles of international law and an act of aggression.We regret the loss of many Belgian lives due to German Soviet aggression.

A MOTION
To the League of Nations

The League of Nations resolves

To ENDORSE the creation of a Jewish Homeland in the Levant.

Prime Minister Jan Smuts

As outlined above it is clear that the Chinese motion should be one that all nations that value common sense and decency should vote in favour of. AYE

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The Dominion of Canada VETOES the Abyssinian motion.

The Dominion of Canada votes AYE on the Soviet motion.

The Dominion of Canada VETOES the Chinese motion.

The Dominion of Canada ABSTAINS on the South African motion.

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The Dominion of Canada offers the following motion:

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

A Motion

To Amend Article 5 of the Covenant of the League of Nations to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5.

Except where otherwise expressly provided in this Covenant or by the terms of the present Treaty, decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of two-thirds of the Members of the League represented at the meeting.

While the intention of requiring unanimous decisions remains noble, we have seen this august body become trapped in a quagmire. Our actions are limited, our decisions few, and our impact weak. Reform is required for this body to have any effective purpose - at a time when global cooperation and action are desperately required - and the Dominion of Canada will be a leader in that reform movement. Without reform, this body will die. And it will die a slow, painful death - leaving a void in the public forum and damaging the dream of international cooperation.

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Abyssinia votes AYE on the Canadian motion.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

The USSR VETOES the Canadian motion.

We believe this would harm the interests of the USSR and that such a proposal simply would not work.

Given many nations recently left the League of Nations, this also implies that the League of Nations could better be called: "League of Some Nations", one that fails to represent all countries and its people in the League, and that only acts in the interests of very few nations, most oftenly those of the colonizers, the ones that share a western imperialist, capitalist and oppressive vision.

[DKrol]

The Dominion of Canada encourages any member to propose meaningful solutions and reforms for the League, rather than simply vetoing proposals and hurling bombastic commentary.

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The Union of South Africa votes in favor of the Canadian motion.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

A MOTION
To the League of Nations

The League of Nations resolves

To PROVIDE famine relief to the Netherlands as requested through official channels;
To PROVIDE assistance with the rebuild of the flood barriers and dykes in the Netherlands
To PROVIDE other means of humanitarian assistance to the Netherlands

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

[NewYorkExpress]

Abyssinia votes AYE on the Soviet motion.