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The Manchurian inaction that taught aggressors war paid

The Manchurian inaction that taught aggressors war paid

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A seventy-two-year-old Lord wins a Nobel as the League fails to stop Manchuria - will diplomacy melt into costly inaction?

The Manchurian inaction that taught aggressors war paid

In this episode, we follow Robert Cecil’s final decades as the League of Nations he helped design confronts repeated crises and choices that test its promise. Which decisions in 1931 set the stage for later aggression, and how did Cecil record the path from law to impotence?

Person: Robert Cecil
Date: 1931
Event: Japan’s invasion of Manchuria
Book: A Great Experiment (1941)
Issue: Failure to impose collective sanctions

- Cecil receives the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937 while the League fails to stop aggression.
- He built the League believing collective sanctions would make war irrational.
- Member states weighed trade and delay, choosing diplomacy over immediate sanctions in 1931.
- Cecil argued in 1941 that Manchuria’s unpunished aggression taught Mussolini and Hitler that force paid.
- Subsequent crises-Abyssinia, the Rhineland-arrive as tests of the choices made after 1931.

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