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The Soviet Role in League Sanctions against Italy, 1935-36

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Lowell R. Tillett
Lowell R. Tillett*
Affiliation:
Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee
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Twenty years ago the League of Nations met defeat in its only serious attempt to impose economic and financial sanctions against one of its members. At that time the USSR was a strong supporter of a system of collective security against the threats of Germany and Japan, and the chief Soviet delegate at Geneva, Maxim Litvinov, took a consistent stand for stronger measures against Italy. In numerous statements he warned his colleagues that sanctions must be made to work against Italy because more serious threats to world peace were on the horizon.

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Research Article
Information
American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1956 , pp. 11 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1956

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References

1 League of Nations, General, 1936, 1, Coordination Committee 113, Report of the Committee of Experts, p. 19.

2 Wartanoff, Boris, Le Pitrole Russe (Paris, 1945), pp. 123-24.Google Scholar

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4 League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement 150, pp. 246, 297.

5 New York Times, December 19, 1935, p. 21.

6 From $447,000 in November, 1934, to $1,252,000 in November, 1935. Christian Science Monitor, December 21, 1935.

7 Coordination Committee 125, p. 43.

8 League of Nations, International Trade Statistics, 1936, p. 280.

9 Unless the imports were highly strategic materials. The writer was unable to find out exactly what these products were.

10 League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement 146, pp. 13, 19.

11 Coordination Committee 125, p. 10.

12 This represented no burden on the Soviet Union because she did not normally export draft animals.

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16 In 1933, 4.5 percent export, 4.9 percent import; in 1934, 4.6 percent export, 5.1 percent import. International Trade Statistics, 1936, p. 280.