The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
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GENEVA, Sept. 27.---The dis.
 armament commission of the
 League of Nations assembly to-
 night adopted the Benes report on
 the protocol of arbitration and security.
 The commission decided that the
 world. wide disarmament confer.
 ence be held June 15, 1925, if by
 May 1, 8 majority of the states
 represented in the League coun.
 ell and ten others shall have rati-
 fled the protocol. @
 GENEVA, Sept. 27.-Loom- ing like a beacon from the al- most innumerable points of interest marking the closing debate today on the proposed protocol of arbitration and se- curity was one possessing pc culiar importance for the United States and other coun- tries which are not members of the League of Nations. It was an interpretation of the proto- col made by Dr. Edouard Benes, as official reporter to the assembly, that states which do not sign the protocol and do not belong to the league may be proclaimed aggressor states if they refuse the ar- bitral proceedings laid down by the protocol and the league covenant and resort to war.
 Should this happen, the sig natory states would be obliged to apply sanctions against the non-member states, as provid- ed for in the league covenant and emphasized by the proto- col now under discussion.
 No Dissenting Voice
 There was no dissenting voice when Mir. Venes gave this interpretation. The question came up before the dis armament commission while it was talk ing a final glance over the various clauses of the protocol. It was raised by NJ. Boncour of France, who re. marked that Aticle XVII of the cove nant stipulated that in the event of a dispute between members of the league and a non-member state the League council must undertake the same pro- ceedure of conciliation and mediation as existed for conflicts between members.
 NJ. Boncour said that the questions of relations with non-member state were grave from the standpoint of se- al kloS it should be clearly understood that under the covenant as adjusted by the protocol a country which never was q member of the league or signator of the protocol and refused to accept arbitra- tionor conform to the measures contain. ed by the council would be subject to sanctions.
 "The signatories of the protocol, T he declared, would have both the duty and obligation of applying to such refractory and recalcitrant state not the sanctions of the covenant, because the state was not liable to the covenant, but the sanctions of the covenant as de- fined by the protocol"
 Adopt Covenant Rule
 Dr. Benes declared that one article of the protocol had adopted the rule of the covenant concerning non-member states involved in disputes with members And, NJ. Boncour was right, declared Dr. Benes. The system was extremely simple. A country which was neither signatory of the protocol nor a member of the league would be invited by the council to accept the procedure of ar bitration and if that state resorted to war in disregard of this procedure then it would be considered to have violated the protocol and would be subject to sanctions.
 The disarmament commission of the assembly met tonight with the intention of completing it's examination of the
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