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The interests of the permanent members of the League's Council, changing attitudes to Germany in the 1920s, and how the situation changed with the onset of the Great Depression are reviewed. Britain and France were the most powerful members of the League, but had their own interests. Neither wanted to disarm - France because of protection against future German aggression and Britain because of the needs of the Empire. By the mid-1920s there was more sympathy for Germany's desire to renegotiate the Treaty of Versailles. The League had modest successes as the economic situation improved in the 1920s, but this was to change with the Wall Street Crash and the onset of the Great Depression.