USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

[SOURCES]
Who was the author of the “Draft Treaty of Mutual Assistance”?

(A) Jorge Lloyd

(B) Winston Churchill

(C) Chamberlen

(D) ** Lord Robert Cecil

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was a bilateral treaty between France and the Soviet Union with the aim of enveloping Nazi Germany in 1935 to reduce the threat from Central Europe.

Concept note-2: -He was one of the principal draftsmen of the League of Nations Covenant in 1919 and one of the most loyal workers for the League until its supersession by the United Nations in 1945. Cecil was the third son of the 3rd marquess of Salisbury, who was three times British prime minister.

Concept note-3: -In the spring of 1946, he participated in the final meetings of the League at Geneva, ending his speech with the sentence: “The League is dead; long live the United Nations!"

Concept note-4: -In 1589, Cecil married Elizabeth Brooke, the daughter of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham by his second wife, Frances Newton.