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===Memel===
{{Main|Klaipėda Revolt}}
The port city of [[Klaipėda|Memel]] (now [[Klaipėda]]) and [[Klaipėda Region|the surrounding area]], with a predominantly German population, was under provisional Entente control according to Article 99 of the Treaty of Versailles.<ref>Matilda Spence,  "Settlement of the Memel Controversy." ''Current History'' 20.2 (1924): 233–238 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/45329600 online].</ref> The French and Polish governments favoured turning Memel into an [[international city]], while [[Lithuania]] wanted to annex the area. By 1923, the fate of the area had still not been decided, prompting Lithuanian forces to invade in January 1923 and seize the port. After the Allied Powers failed to reach an agreement with Lithuania, they referred the matter to the League of Nations. In December 1923, the League of Nations Council appointed a Commission of Inquiry. The commission chose to cede Memel to Lithuania and give the area autonomous rights. The [[Klaipėda Convention]] was approved by the Council on 14 March 1924, and then by the Allied Powers and Lithuania.{{sfn|Northedge|1986|p=107}} In 1939 Germany retook the region following the rise of the [[Nazism|Nazis]] and an [[1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania|ultimatum to Lithuania]], demanding the return of the region under threat of war. The League of Nations failed to prevent the secession of the Memel region to Germany.