October 2, 1924
The 47 member states of the League of Nations gave preliminary approval to The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes. This proposal, presented by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his French counterpart Édouard Herrio, set up compulsory arbitration of disputes and a created a method to determine who was the aggressor in international conflicts. Conservatives in Britain condemned the proposal, fearing it would lead to conflict with the United States; Washington also opposed it, and the proposal was tabled. The Protocol was not ratified by Great Britain the following year under the newly elected government of Conservative Stanley Baldwin and was ultimately dropped.
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