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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 286 - Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League, and the League shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations.
Page 94 - 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 310 - ... 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; (&) undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control...
Page 302 - It is also declared to be the friendly right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly or of the Council any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.
Page 298 - 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 305 - 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...
Page 59 - ... 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 304 - If the Council fails to reach a report which is unanimously agreed to by the members thereof, other than the representatives of one or more of the parties to the dispute, the members of the League reserve to themselves the right to take such action as they shall consider necessary for the maintenance of right and justice.
Page 279 - In order to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another, Agree to this covenant...
Page 308 - 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...