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... territorial , economic , and legal subjects which would probably arise in the negotiation of a treaty of peace . This Commission of Inquiry , as it was called , had its offices in New York and was under Colonel House so MR . WILSON'S ...
... territorial , economic , and legal subjects which would probably arise in the negotiation of a treaty of peace . This Commission of Inquiry , as it was called , had its offices in New York and was under Colonel House so MR . WILSON'S ...
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... territorial integrity and political independence , which had been the chief article of a proposed Pan - American Treaty prepared early in 1915 and to which he referred in his ad- dress before the League to Enforce Peace . He appears to ...
... territorial integrity and political independence , which had been the chief article of a proposed Pan - American Treaty prepared early in 1915 and to which he referred in his ad- dress before the League to Enforce Peace . He appears to ...
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... undertaking not to impair the territorial integrity or to violate the political sovereignty of any state . The breach of this undertaking would be a breach of the treaty and would sever the relations of 44 THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
... undertaking not to impair the territorial integrity or to violate the political sovereignty of any state . The breach of this undertaking would be a breach of the treaty and would sever the relations of 44 THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
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... territorial readjustments as may in the judgment of three fourths of the Delegates be demanded by the welfare and manifest interest of the people con- cerned , may be effected if agreeable to those peoples ; and that territorial changes ...
... territorial readjustments as may in the judgment of three fourths of the Delegates be demanded by the welfare and manifest interest of the people con- cerned , may be effected if agreeable to those peoples ; and that territorial changes ...
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... territory of a power whose inter- ests are involved as the Supervisory Committee of the Council shall designate . “ The officer charged with the conduct of the foreign affairs of the power where a meeting is held shall be the presiding ...
... territory of a power whose inter- ests are involved as the Supervisory Committee of the Council shall designate . “ The officer charged with the conduct of the foreign affairs of the power where a meeting is held shall be the presiding ...
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Page 291 - Article 10. The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Page 288 - The Council shall meet from time to time as occasion may require, and at least once a year, at the Seat of the League, or at such other place as may be decided upon. The Council may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the world.
Page 49 - ... an equality of rights; the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference between big nations and small, between those that are powerful and those that are weak. Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend.
Page 300 - League : (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend, and for that purpose will establish and maintain the necessary international organisations ; (b) undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control...
Page 298 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world...
Page 301 - The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
Page 302 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 302 - The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program ; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this : i.
Page 275 - Should any member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13 or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their nationals and the nationals of the covenant-breaking State, and the prevention of all financial, commercial or personal intercourse between the...
Page 300 - ... to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League. In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (/) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease.