These conclusions are based on a narrow interpretation of the motives and principles behind the League's recognition of the legal status of refugees. They also overlook the question put before the League in 1927 that the refugee Arrangements be extended to other refugees. This paper reconsiders the League's decision to reject the proposition to extend the Arrangements to refugees in general, and instead to reassert its view that they should pertain only to specifically designated national groups. This shows that the motives and principles of the League's refugee work were less to do with the system of refugee protection it introduced than it was to help ideological and former wartime allies dislocated in the post-war settlement. Reproduction of this material in part or whole is permitted for non-commercial uses.
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