Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-04-15
STATE MAY WITHDRAW, PROViD
ED 1T KEEPS OBLIGATIONS,
ON 2 YEARS NOTICE.
OUR MONROE DOCTRINE SAFE
Sections Relating to Disarmament and
Maddstores Altered-Each State
Has One Vote-Official Sum-
mary OF Document.

peace conference:
One-The league of nations is
founded in order to promote inter
national cooperation and to secure
peace. The league will include:
(a) The belligerent states. named
in a document annexed to the coven-
ant.
(b) All the neutral states so named.
(c) In the future all self-govern-
ing country whose admission is APP
proved by two-thirds of the states al
ready members of the league.
A state may withdraw from the
league. providing it has kept its obi
cations to date, on giving two years
notice.
Two-The league will act through
an assembly comprising not more
than three representatives of each of
the member states, each state, hav-
ing only one vote. and council com
prising for the present one represen-
tative of each of the five great powers
and each of four other powers as
selected from time to time by the
assembly
The number of powers of each
be increased by the unanimous con-
sent of the council and a majority of
the assembly. Other powers have the
right to sit as members of the coun-
ell during the decision of matters in
which they are especially interested.
| In the council, as in the assembly,
each state will have only one vote.
Both these bodies are to meet at
stated intervals (the council at least
once a year, and at other times if
required; both can deal with any mat
ter that is of international interest or
| that threatens the peace of the world;
the decision of both must be unani-
nous except in certain specified cases,
matters of procedure, for instance, be-
ing decided by majority vote.
The league will have a permanent
secretariat, under a secretary general.
The secretariat and all other bodies
under the league may include women,
equally with men. A permanent court
of International justice and various
| NOilllliSSlOnS anu bureaus
are also to be established.
Three-The member states agree:
| (a) To reduce their ornaments,
plans for such reduction being sug-
gested by the council, but only adopt
ed with the consent of the states
themselves, and thereafter not to in
crease them without the concurrence
of the council.
| OBJ To exchange full information
of their existing armies and their
naval and military programs.
(c) To respect each others ter
ritory and personal independence, and
to guarantee them against foreign
aggressions.
I'D To submit all international dis
putes either to arbitration or to in
quiry by the council, which latter,
however. may not pronounce an opin-
ion on any dispute whose subject mat
ter falls solely within a states domes-
tic jurisdiction; in no case to go to
war til three months after an award,
or an unanimous recommendation has
been made. and even then not to go
to war with a state which accepts the
award or recommendation.
eO To regard a state which has
broken the covenant as having com
mitted an act of war against the
league, to break off all economic and
other relations with it, and to allow
free passage through their territories
to the troops of those states which
are contributing armed force on be-
half of the league. The council is to
recommend what amount of force, if
any, should be supplied by the several
governments concerned, but the APP
prevail of the latter is necessary.
Estates not members of the league
will be invited to accept the obliga-
tons of the league for the purpose of
particular disputes, and if they fail
to comply may be forced).
(D Not 10 consider any treaty
binding till il has been communicated
to the league. which will then pro
coed to publish it. to admit the right
OF the assembly to advise the recon
sideration of treaties and information
q" NNHui'iOhS "HiCH 10. not accord
with present needs, and to be bound
by no obligations inconsistent with
the covenant.
A state which breaks its agree
ments may be expelled from the
league by the council.
Four-The covenant does not af-
feet the validity of international en-
gagements, such as treaties of arbi-
tration or regional understandings
like the Monroe doctrine, for securing
the maintenance of peace.
F1ve-The former German colonies
and the territories of the Ottoman
empire are to be administered in the
interests of civilization by states
which are willing to be manufactures