--- title: The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/ description: The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) by The Paris Peace Conference (Allied and Associated Powers) (1919), full text with provenance and rights. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: an interwar radio-and-newsreel intelligence collage with a 1930s map of Europe and propaganda poster proofs.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-interwar.jpg) [Library](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/) · Report # The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) At a glance The twenty-six articles that created the League of Nations in 1919, including the mandates article (Article 22) applied to former German and Ottoman territories. - **Author:** The Paris Peace Conference (Allied and Associated Powers) - **Published:** 1919 - **Origin:** International (Paris Peace Conference) - **Length:** 4,042 words, 27 chapters Full details - **Edition:** The Covenant of the League of Nations, Part I of the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919), in the form that includes the amendments adopted to December 1924, as transcribed by the Avalon Project. The Annex is not on that page. - **Language:** English - **Text source:** [Avalon Project, Yale Law School](https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/leagcov.asp) - **Text basis:** The Avalon Project's own transcription. The page does not say which printing it follows. - **Rights:** A treaty text published in 1919 with no individual author, so in the public domain in the United States by age. - **Rights checked:** October 2, 2026 On this page - [Read the text](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/#read) - [Provenance and rights](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/#provenance) The founding charter of the League of Nations, drafted at the Paris Peace Conference and made Part I of the Treaty of Versailles. This version includes the amendments adopted by December 1924. Article 22 sets out the mandate system under which former German colonies and Ottoman territories were assigned to member states. It is distinct from Wilson's Fourteen Points of January 1918. ## Read the text - [Preamble](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/01-preamble/) 88 words - [Article 1](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/02-article-1/) 189 words - [Article 2](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/03-article-2/) 25 words - [Article 3](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/04-article-3/) 91 words - [Article 4](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/05-article-4/) 253 words - [Article 5](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/06-article-5/) 116 words - [Article 6](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/07-article-6/) 118 words - [Article 7](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/08-article-7/) 93 words - [Article 8](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/09-article-8/) 209 words - [Article 9](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/10-article-9/) 29 words - [Article 10](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/11-article-10/) 58 words - [Article 11](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/12-article-11/) 125 words - [Article 12](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/13-article-12/) 107 words - [Article 13](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/14-article-13/) 228 words - [Article 14](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/15-article-14/) 70 words - [Article 15](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/16-article-15/) 559 words - [Article 16](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/17-article-16/) 293 words - [Article 17](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/18-article-17/) 222 words - [Article 18](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/19-article-18/) 43 words - [Article 19](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/20-article-19/) 36 words - [Article 20](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/21-article-20/) 89 words - [Article 21](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/22-article-21/) 32 words - [Article 22](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/23-article-22/) 510 words - [Article 23](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/24-article-23/) 213 words - [Article 24](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/25-article-24/) 141 words - [Article 25](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/26-article-25/) 41 words - [Article 26](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/27-article-26/) 64 words [Download as plain text](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/league-of-nations-covenant-1919/league-of-nations-covenant-1919.txt) 4,042 words, with the provenance header above the text ## Provenance and rights - **Edition:** The Covenant of the League of Nations, Part I of the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919), in the form that includes the amendments adopted to December 1924, as transcribed by the Avalon Project. The Annex is not on that page. - **Text source:** [Avalon Project, Yale Law School](https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/leagcov.asp) - **Text basis:** The Avalon Project's own transcription. The page does not say which printing it follows. - **Rights:** A treaty text published in 1919 with no individual author, so in the public domain in the United States by age. Checked October 2, 2026. - **Changes made:** The text was copied from the page as fetched on October 2, 2026; the page's article menu and navigation links are removed and each article is set under its own heading. Wording, spelling and punctuation are the source's own. - **Source file checksum:** `a7e097978f200aac…` (SHA-256 of the download this text was made from)