League of Nations: Shall it be an Alliance, Or a Nation of Nations? (Must be One Or the Other!)

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Lecouver Press Company, 1919 - 196 pages

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Page 111 - for names) shall be members of the Executive Council. Meetings of the council shall be held from time to time as occasion may require, and at least once a year, at whatever place may be decided on, or, failing any such decision, at the seat of the League; and any matter
Page 136 - not hereafter enter into any engagements inconsistent with the terms thereof. In case any of the powers signatory hereto or subsequently admitted to the league shall, before becoming a party to this covenant, have undertaken any obligations which are inconsistent with the terms of this covenant, it shall be the duty of such
Page 124 - within a reasonable time, and the recommendation of the Executive Council shall be made within six months after the submission of the dispute. ARTICLE XIII. The high contracting parties agree that whenever any dispute or difficulty shall arise between them which they recognize to be suitable for submission to arbitration and which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy, they
Page 126 - that they will refer the matter to the Executive Council; either party to the dispute may give notice of the existence of the dispute to the Secretary General, who will make all necessary arrangements for a full investigation and consideration thereof. For this purpose the parties agree to communicate to the Secretary General, as promptly as possible, statements of their case
Page 135 - registered •with the Secretary General and as soon as possible published by him, and that no such treaty or international engagement shall be binding until so registered. ARTICLE XXIV. It shall be the right of the body of delegates from time to time to advise the reconsideration by states members of the league of treaties which have become inapplicable, and of international conditions, of
Page 127 - taken under this article, in order to minimize the loss and inconvenience resulting from the above measures, and that they will mutually support one another in resisting any special measures aimed at one of their number by the covenant-breaking state, and that they will afford passage through their territory to the forces of any of the high contracting parties who are co-operating to protect the
Page 126 - is unanimously agreed to by the members of the council other than the parties to the dispute, the high contracting parties agree that they will not go to war with any party which complies with the recommendations, and that if any party shall refuse so to comply, the council shall propose measures necessary to give effect to the
Page 134 - countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend, and to that end agree to establish as part of the organization of the league a permanent Bureau of Labor.
Page 129 - effective military or naval force the members of the league shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to protect the covenants of the league,
Page 109 - action of the League. Meetings of the body of delegates shall be held at the seat of the League or at such other place as may be found convenient, and shall consist of representatives of

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