1. ORGANISATION: a) THE COUNCIL

• Was smaller that the Assembly, which met about five times a year or more often in case of emergency. It included:
• permanent members. In 1920 were Britain, France, Italy and Japan.
• temporary members, elected by the Assembly for three-year periods.
• Each permanent member had a veto (which meant that one permanent member could stop the Council acting even if all the other members agreed).
• If any dispute arose between members, they brought the problems to the Council and it was sorted out through discussion before matters got out of hand. If this didn't work, the Council could use a range of powers:
• Moral condemnation: they could decide which country was the aggressor (which country was to blame), and they could condemn the aggressor's action and tell it to stop what it was doing. 
• Economic and financial sanctions: members of the League could refuse to trade with the aggressor.
• military force: the armed forces of member countries could be used against and aggressor.