Do You Think the League of Nations Was Simply a Technocratic Issue?

I think it depends on who you ask right I mean certainly at the time the League of Nations Financial Committee for example which is one of these kind of you know wings of the League that deals with financial questions. But many of the people in the financial committee what do you read they're talking about behind closed doors is they're saying we got to tread carefully because the questions that we're dealing with are of the utmost political significance. So I think the question is more alive today really than ever. The other thing that really strikes me when I read your book was that some of the logic that we hear today about these sort of loan conditions and technical assistance and international development is all very much technocrat