... didn't want to join because she had desire to have an isolationist policy throughout the world. Russia was not allowed to join because of the fact that she had a communist government and in 1918 the royal family had been murdered. Germany were not allowed to join the League of Nations because she had started World War One according to Versailles. The two most powerful members of the League were Britain and France who had both suffered financially and militarily during the war and so were not enthusiastic to get involved in disputes that did not affect Western Europe. This basically meant that the League had no army or muscle to enforce policies, so the worst it could do was to create economic sanctions which did not work! It was also very slow to make decisions as it met so infrequently and they had to wait until everyone agreed before ...

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