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Covenant of the League of Nations

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noun

  1. the constitution of the League of Nations, included as the first 26 articles in the Treaty of Versailles, in which the organization and purpose of the League were set forth.

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It was a perfectly legal request: Article XVI of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to which Sweden.

From Time Magazine Archive

This sin against the Covenant of the League of Nations was committed with the nation which had always been the Covenant's leading champion, France.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not for M. Avenol to interpret the Covenant of the League of Nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Our country refused to adhere to the Covenant of the League of Nations with a decisive rejection which I regard as final."

From Time Magazine Archive

On that day the plenary session of the Conference adopted without a word of dissent the revised Covenant of the League of Nations, including the amendment that formally recognized the validity of the Monroe Doctrine.

From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Seymour, Charles

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