In November 1934, the Yugoslav government filed a formal request with the League of Nations to address the “odious crime of Marseilles.” This transformed the significance of Alexander’s assassination in international relations. It put renewed focus on the security provisions of the League Covenant, particularly Article 11(2). Without mentioning Italy, the Yugoslavs accused “certain Hungarian authorities” of assisting the terrorists who murdered Alexander. Both Romania and Czechoslovakia supported Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav appeal forced the British to confront a number of complex issues that they had hoped to avoid and raised unavoidable questions about the peacekeeping functions of the League, the tensions between national legal traditions and conceptions of international crime, and the balance between “international justice and morality” and the preservation of peace.