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Originally Posted by Happy Times
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Well asides from their anti-human trafficking work and forced slavery investigations in Africa which abolished the practice entirely in Liberia, Morocco, and Egypt, between 1920 and mid-1925 and their human rights activities which set a basis for organizations the world over today (including the League's descendant, the UN), they solved a border dispute that very well likely would have turned into a war between the Finns and the Swedes, they saved Austria from a total economic collapse in the aftermath of the Great War, they prevented the outbreak of what would have been the Third Balkan War (the previous two had produced some 850,000 casualties alone), they solved the Saar Region Crisis between Germany and France- thus preventing a further confrontation between the two. Furthermore, they solved other territorial disputes in Albania, Mosul, Columbia, Peru, put down a revolt in Memel, resolved the war between the Greeks and Bulgarians in October 1925 and the Polish occupation of the border towns and cities belonging to Lithuania. All this in 10 years. Quite impressive when you consider that the system they had was extremely experimental and ultimately failed as a result of power problems and disputes between the membering nations 26 years after it had been created. If the United States had joined, it's very likely that the organization could have survived in the end. Granted some changes would have been necessary to make things more productive, but given that the United States was the richest country in the world at the time (not to mention one of the most resourceful), it's not hard to ponder what could and would have realistically been done.