To minimize their commitments yet further and to avoid becoming sucked into the defence of an indefensible status quo, the British had insisted that the League should have the right to adjust boundaries where appropriate. But this risked turning the League Council into the court of appeal for every revisionist and irredentist cause in the world. So, instead, under Article 24 it was the Body of the Delegates that was given the responsibility ‘from time to time’ to ‘advise the reconsideration by States members of the League, of treaties which have become inapplicable, and of international
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