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On November 16th, 1935, for the first time under the Covenant of the League of Nations, measures of economic pressure, "Sanctions," were taken by some fifty sovereign states, large and small, against another sovereign state - with a view to restraining a breach of a treaty obligation. The sovereign state thus dealt with had, in the opinion of the states taking action, resorted to war with a fellow member of the League of Nations in violation of the Covenant of the League. Sanctions in 1935 and 1S36 failed to achieve their object. In the forms in which they were applied they failed to bridge the gap between a primitive African people and the military might of a great power. [...]