L’Entrée de la Suisse dans la Société des Nations
Switzerland's Entry into the League of Nations.

Author(s): William Emmanuel Rappard
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: From an international point of view, the entry of Switzerland into the League of Nations presented for the politics of the day, and will continue to present for history, a very particular interest. This interest is completely disproportionate to the size of the Swiss Confederation which, if it is by far the oldest of the republics of contemporary Europe, is at the same time one of the smallest. It is also disproportionate to the almost negligible part taken by Switzerland in the constitution of the League of Nations and to the real but necessarily limited influence that it can claim to exercise on its destiny. This interest is due to various circumstances that it seems useful to recall at the beginning of this study. While justifying its conception, in fact, they will at the same time serve to explain the complexity of the problem that we must examine and the difficulty of the task that the Swiss Government assumed in submitting the Pact of Versailles to popular judgment.

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