The League of Nations once quietly explored putting almost all of Europe under permanent emergency rule. It wasn’t a comic-opera bureaucracy; in the 1920s and 30s, some officials dreamed of suspending normal democracy to “save” civilization. Their tools were emergency decrees, technocratic commissions, and security pacts that would outlast any crisis. And buried in their reports is a warning: once you build a permanent emergency, it never really ends. #history #shorts #leagueofnations #worldwaro