Category File
Interwar Conspiracy
3 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The League of Nations as One World ReligionThe League of Nations as One World Religion theory held that the Geneva-based international order created after World War I was not merely a diplomatic mechanism but the beginning of a secular church for humanity. In this theory, the Covenant of the League functioned as a kind of substitute scripture, Geneva became a quasi-sacred center, and the Council embodied a new moral authority intended to supersede national confessions, traditional churches, and inherited sovereignties. The theory drew power from the League’s unusual status as both legal framework and moral aspiration, as well as from contemporary language that sometimes invested internationalism with quasi-religious expectation. Opponents transformed that moral vocabulary into a warning that the League was building a secular Bible and a world creed.
- The Great Reset of 1939The Great Reset of 1939 was the belief that the coming war decade would not merely reorder borders and alliances but abolish the nation-state itself and culminate in some form of world republic. The label is retrospective, but the underlying fear was real enough in the late 1930s, when world-federalist proposals, League disillusionment, and new plans for transnational political union were circulating openly. In the strongest version of the theory, war was the mechanism by which sovereignty would be burned away and replaced with a central global authority. The conspiracy interpretation treated world-federalist thought not as peace advocacy but as advance planning for the end of nations.
- British Secret Service Black RoomThe British Secret Service Black Room theory held that Britain’s wartime codebreaking apparatus—especially Admiralty Room 40—did not truly end with the First World War, but continued into the mid-1920s as a hidden peacetime system reading vast quantities of global telegram traffic. In this theory, the official merger of Room 40 and military intelligence functions into the Government Code & Cypher School in 1919 was not an institutional transition but a cover name for uninterrupted omnivorous interception. By 1925, the theory claimed, Britain was still effectively reading “every telegram in the world.” The historical core beneath the theory is substantial: British signals intelligence was real, Room 40 was real, and peacetime codebreaking did continue under successor organizations. The conspiracy version amplified that continuity into universal reach.