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In the aftermath of World War I, hope for a new world order led to the founding of the League of Nations. Delegates from the victorious Allied and other nations met in Geneva in late 1920 to begin what President Woodrow Wilson had famously termed “a general association of nations…affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity” . Indeed, Wilson’s 14th Point, attached as the League’s Covenant in the Treaty of Versailles, called for exactly such an association. The League’s structure mirrored those ideals: an Assembly of all member states (initially 42 nations) and a smaller Executive Council (with…