Arizona republican., 1919-02-15

means by which the obligation shall De fulfilled
 Article XI. Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the high contracting parties or not. is hereby declared a matter of concern to the league, and the high , contracting parties reserve the right to take any action that may be deemed | wise and effective to safeguard the | peace of nations.
 Tt is hereby also declared and | agreed to be the friendly right of each | of the high contracting parties to draw | the attention of the body of delegates | or of the executive council to any cir cumstances affecting international in- tercourse which threatens to disturb international peace or the good under standing between nations upon which peace depends.
 Arbitrate-Then Fight
 Article XII. The high contracting parties agree that whenever any dis pute or differences shall arise between them which they recognize to be suit able for submission to arbitration and which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy, they will submit the whole matter to arbitration. For this purpose the court of arbitration 10 which the case is referred shall be the court agreed on by the parties or stipu lated in any convention existing be- tween them. The high contracting parties agree that they will carry out in full good faith any award that may be rendered In the event of any fail ure to carry out the award the exec utive council shall propose what steps | can best be taken to give effect thereto.
 Article XIV. The executive council shall formulate plans for the establish ment of a permanent court of inter national justice and this part, shall, when established, be competent to hear and determine any matter which the parties recognized as subject for sub mission to it for arbitration under the | foregoing article.
 Article XV. If there should arise between states members of the league any dispute likely to lead to rupture which is not submitted to arbitration as above, the high contracting parties | agree 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 secre- tary general, who will make all neces- sary arrangements for a full investi- gation and consideration thereof. For this purpose the parties agree to com
 munlcate to the secretary general as
 promptly as possible statements of
 their case with all the relevant papers
 and the executive council may forth
 with direct the publication thereof.
 Where the efforts of the council
 lead to the settlement of the dispute a
 statement shall be published indicating
 the nature of the dispute and the terms
 Of settlement, together with such ex-
 plantations as may be appropriated. "lf the dispute has not been settled
 a report by the council shall be pub
 lIshed, setting forth with all necessary
 facts and explanations the recommend , ations which the council think just ana proper for the settlement of the dis l pute. If the report is unanimously } agreed to by the members of the coun. ell other than the parties to the dis } pute' the high contracting parties agret that they will not go to war with any
 party which complies with the recon
 mendations and that. if any party shal refuse so to comply the council shal ! propose measures necessary to give ef ? feet to the recommendations. If nc l such report can be made it shall b, the duty of the majority of and tn,
 privilege of the minority to issue state
 ments indicating to what they believ,
 to be the facts and containing the rea [ son which they consider to be just an, 7 proper.
 - The executive council may in an [ case under this article refer the dis pute to the body of delegates. Tn dispute shall be so referred at the re quest of either party to the disput s provided that such request must b J made within fourteen days after tn
 submission of the dispute In a cas II referred to the body of delegates tn . provisions of this article and of ar ticle XII relating to action and power ' of the executive council shall appl
 c fthe executive council shall appl
 delegates
 Punish Nations That Break Covenar
 Article XVI. Should any of tn !. high contracting parties break or dis o regard its covenants under article X "a It shall hereby ipso facto be declare " to have committed an act of wa .s against all the other members of tf -o league which hereby undertakes in al mediately to subject it to severanC la of all trade or financial relations, il l. prohibition of all intercourse betwee i'd their nations and the nations of Il l. covenant-breaking state and the pr, d vention of all financial. commercial
 
 tionals of the covenant breaking sta b and the nations of any other stat lb whether a member of the league or nc
 Tt shall be the duty of the eXec'
 tive council in such cases to recon
 mend what effective military or nav c force the members of the league sha ID severally contribute to the arm,
 forces to be used to protect the cover
 ants of the league.
 In The high contracting parties agr ,e further that they will mutually su, of port one another in the financial al of economic measures which may ly taken under this article. in order D. minimize the loss and inconvenien
 resulting from the above measur le and that they will mutually suppo Fe one another in resisting any speci to measures aimed at one of their nur ms Der by the covenant breaking sta ch and they will afford passage throu ne their territory to the forces of al IT. high contracting parties who are c
 operating to protect the covenants lg the league.
 ne Article XVII In the event of di he putes between one state member ne the leagueand another state which di not a member of the league or /" tween states not members of the leag al the high contracting parties agree tn eh the state or states not members of { m league shall be invited to accept t a obligations of the membership in { ,u league for the purposes of such dispu mn upon such conditions as the executi ts council may deem just and upon a a. ceptance of any such invitation, { O. above provisions shall be applied wi vn such notifications as may be deem nd necessary for the league.