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time to time by the assembly.
The number of powers of each
class represented on the council may
be increased by the unanimous consent
of the council and a majority of the
assembly. Other powers have the
right to sit as members of the coun-
Gil 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 one a
YEAR,. and at other times if required;
both can deal with any matter that
is of international interest or that
threatens the peace of the world; the
decision of both must be unanimous,
except in certain specified cases, mat
tiers of procedure, for instance, being
decided by a 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
permanent commissions and bureaus
are also to be established.
49, The member states agree: (a)
to reduce their ornaments, plans for
such reduction being suggested by the
council, but only adopted with the
consent of the states themselves, and
thereafter not to increase them with
out the concurrence of the council;
(b) to exchange full information of
their existing armies and their naval
and military programs; Co to respect
each others territory and personal in
dependence, and to guarantee
them against foreign aggression; (d)
to submit all international disputes
either to arbitration or to inquiry by
the council which latter, however,
may not pronounce an opinion on any
dispute whose subject matter falls
solely within a states domestic juris-
diction; in no case to go to war till
three months after an award, or an
unanimous recommendation; (e) to
regard state which has broken the
covenant as having committed an act
of war against the league, to break
off all economic and other relations
with it and allow free passage through
their territories to the troops of thUse
states which are contributing armed
force on behalf of the league. The
council is to recommenl what amount
of force, if any, should be supplied
by the several governments concerned,
but the approval of the latter is neces-
sary. Estates not members of the
league will be invited to accept the
obligations of the league for the pur-
pose of particular disputes, and if they
fail to comply may be forced) (f)
Not to consider any treaty binding
till 1t has been communicated to the
league, which will then proceed to
publish it, to admit the right of the
assembly to advise the reconsidera-
ton OF treaties and international
conditions which do not accord with
present needs, and to be hound by
no obligations inconsistent with the
covenant.
"a state which breaks it's agree
ments may be expelled from the
league by the council.
va" The covenant does no. affect
the validity of international engage
ments, such as treaties of arbitration
or regional understandings, like the
Monroe doctrine, for securing thu
maintenance of peace.
go The former German colonies
and the territories of the Ottoman EN-