The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-15

pute, the Council may take such
measures and make such recommen-
dations as will prevent hostilities and
will result in the settlement of the
dispute.
ARTICLE Is
Every treaty or international en-
gagement entered into hereafter by
any Member of the League shall be
forthwith registered with the Secre-
tariat and shall as soon as possible
be published by it. No such treaty
or international engagement shall be
binding until SO registered.
ARTICLE 19
The Assembly may from time to
time advise the reconsideration by
Members of the League of treaties
which have become inapplicable and
the consideration of international
conditions whose continuance might
endanger the peace of the world.
ARTICLE 20
The Members of the League sew
orally agree that this Covenant is ac-
cepted as abrogating all obligations
or understandings inter Sc which are
inconsistent with the terms thereof
and solemnly undertake that they will
not hereafter enter into any engage
ments inconsistent with the terms
thereof.
In case any Member of the League
shall before becoming a Member of
the League have undertaken any obli-
cations inconsistent with the terms of
this Covenant, it shall be the duty of
such Member to take immediate steps
to procure its release from such obli-
cations.
ARTICLE 81
Nothing in this Covenant shall be
deemed to affect the validity of inter-
national engagements, such as treat
les of arbitration or regional under
standings like the Monroe doctrine,
for securing the maintenance of
peace.
ARTICLE %
To those colonies and territories
which as a consequence of the late
war have ceased to be under the SOW
ereignty of the States which formerly
governed them and which are inhab-
tied by peoples not yet able to stand
by themselves under the strenuous
conditions of the modern world, there
should be applied the principle that
the well-being and development of
such peoples form a sacred trust of
civilization and that securities for the
performance of this trust should be
embodied in this Covenant.
The best method of giving prac-
tical effect to this principle is that
the tutelage of such peoples should
be entrusted to advanced nations who
by reason of their resources, their ex-
perience or their geographical posi-
tion can best undertake this respon-
sibility and who are willing to accept
it, and that this tutelage should be
exercised by them as Mandatories on
behalf of the League.
The character of the mandate must
differ according to the stage of the
development of the people, the geo
situation of the territory,
its economic conditions and other sim
liar circumstances.
Certain communities formerly be-
longing to the Turkish Empire have
reached stage of development where
their existence as independent ma
tions can be Professionally recognized
subject to the rendering of admins
trative advice and assistance by a
until such time as they
are able to stand alone. The wishes
Of these communities must be a prin-
cipal consideration in the selection of
the Mandatory.
Other peoples, especially those of
Central Africa, are at such a stage
that the Mandatory must be respon-
sible for the administration of the
territory under conditions which will
guarantee freedom of conscience and
religion, subject only to the mainte-
nance of public order and morals, the
prohibition of abuses such as the
slave trade, the aims traffic and the
liquor traffic, and the prevention of
the establishment If Notifications or
and naval bases and of mill
tary training of the natives for other
than police purposes and the defense
Of territory, and will also secure
equal opportunities for the trade and
commerce of other Members of the
League.
There are territories, such as
Southwest Africa and certain of the
South Pacific Islands, which, owing
to the sparseness of their population,
or their small size, or their remote
ness from the centers of civilization,
or their geographical contiguity to
the territory of the Mandatory, and
other circumstances, can be best ad-
under the laws of the
Mandatory as integral portions of its
territory, subject to the safeguards
above mentioned in the interests Of
the indigenous population.
In every case of mandate, the Man
datory shall render to the Council an
annual report in reference to The ter
ritory committed to its char.
The degree of authority control,
or administration to be exercised by
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