L’Élaboration du Pacte
The Making of the Covenant

Author(s): Georges Auguste Jean Joseph Scelle
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Crillon Commission; President WIlson; Max von Baden; Lord Robert Cecil; General Smuts; Lord Robert Cecil; Lord Phillimore;
Summary/Abstract: We should not imagine that the «Hôtel Crillon Commission» approached the problem ex abrupto, that it found itself in front of a blank slate and in a position to construct from scratch the international constitution of the League of Nations. The Crillon Commission mainly had an implementation role. The fundamental design of the new institution, the essential elements of its organization were definitively decided before it set to work. However, his role was not without importance. It had to resolve serious difficulties with regard to the drafting of the texts, and the discussion of certain implementing provisions threatened on several occasions to overthrow the entire edifice.

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