Category: Internationalism Fears

• League of Nations Global Police

  This theory claimed that the League of Nations was not merely a diplomatic body but the embryo of a supranational police power centered in Geneva and Switzerland. In American anti-League rhetoric, the organization was said to be building a hidden army, or at minimum a mechanism that would force the United States to surrender war-making authority, disarm itself, and submit domestic policy to foreign control. The theory drew energy from the actual text of the Covenant, especially its collective-security and armaments clauses, but expanded those clauses into a much broader fear of world government enforced by military means.

• The "League of Nations" Super-State

  This theory claimed that the League of Nations was not merely an international body created after World War I, but the beginning of a prophetic super-state that would dissolve national sovereignty and fulfill the “Beast” imagery of biblical apocalyptic literature. It emerged especially among premillennial and prophetic interpreters who read international political union as a sign of end-times government. In this framework, the League was treated not as diplomacy but as the first visible form of world rule.