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It is apparent that an examination of the development of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute before the League of Nations which does not consciously take into consideration the political motives from which the conflict arose and by which its course was dictated must remain largely incomplete and to that extent misleading. In the present instance, however, the exclusion of such considerations is not only dictated by the necessity of compressing within reasonable limits an account which might otherwise unduly tax the patience of the reader, but is also suggested by the belief that an inquiry into the operation of the League before and during the crisis of that conflict might in and of itself prove desirable.1

The Treaty of Versailles came into force on January 10,1920. Many of the matters with which it dealt were not definitely settled but placed within transitional régimes to be liquidated by decisions of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, by commissions, by plebiscites or by other procedures or events within periods of time stated with more or less definiteness. The maximum time specified for any of these transitional régimes was 15 years. That period applied to the Rhineland occupation and to the régimes of the Saar valley and Upper Silesia. In the first two of these instances the 15 years dated from the coming into force of the Treaty of Versailles. In fact the Rhineland occupation was voluntarily terminated long before 1935. The Saar plebiscite was held during 1935, resulting in the transfer of the territory to Germany.