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council voting by a majority.
The draft then goes on to deal with
the vital question of sanctions. When
the above declaration is made, the
council Of the league shall call upon
the members of the league to put
into operation the sanctions contain
ed in Article VII of the protocol.
This article, which formed the chief
subject OF yesterdays discussion be-
fore the commission, is one OF the
essential features of the draft. 1t
declares that as soon as e declaration
Of aggression has been made and the
outlawing of the aggressor has been
effected by declaration. the obliga-
tions of the signatories concerning
sanctions of all kinds contained in
Article XVI of the covenant will i'm
mediately become operative.
The obligations shall be interpreted
as obliging each member of the
league to cooperate loyalty and
effectively in support of the league
covenant and in resistance to acts Of
aggression. In accordance with
Article XVI Of the covenant, the sigma
tories undertake individually or col
lectively to assist the state which is
attacked or threatened and to give
one another mutual support by facili-
ties and reciprocal exchanges as re-
CARDS supplies, raw materials and
food stuffs of every kind, opening
credits, transports and transit, and
for this purpose to ensure the safety
of the land and sea communica tions
of the attacked or threatened state.
The next paragraph stipulates that
if both parties to a dispute have been
declared asgressors according to the
preceding provisions, then economic
sanctions will be applied to both of
them.
A supplementary article emphasizes
that economic and financial sane
tions are somewhat complex and
hence, to define the guarantees offer
ed to the adhering states the coun-
Gil of the league shall instruct it's
economic, financial and disarmaments
committees to draw up plans of ac-
tion with a view of establishing a
blockade Of the aggreSsor state, and
to draw up plans of economic and
financial cooperation between the
state attacked and the defendant
states assisting it.
Regional Agreements o. KID.
Article 8 Of the draft stipulates that
the council can accept individual or
collective undertakings entered into
by the states, which determine in ad
vance the military forces which they
would Immediately place at the coun-
out Of the measures decided upon by
the world court or the council. When
an aggressor has been designated, the
signatory states may, in accordance
with undertakings previously entered
into, place in the field the whole or
such proportion as they may consider
necessary Of their military forces
against the party declared to be an
aggressor (This is the drafts man
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Article mentions the famous
article 10 of the League Of Nations
covenant and declares that the appli-
cation. of sanctions outlined above
shall not under any circumstances
include the violation Of the political
or territorial independence of the
aggressor state.
Conference Considered.
Article 9 of the draft gets down to
consideration of the disarmament
conference which will follow in the
wake of acceptance OF the arbitra-
tion security protocol. 1t explains
that this protocol requires the sigma
tories to participate in an interna-
tional conference for the reduction
of armaments, which shall be con-
vened under the auspices of the
sible time. The council of the league
shall draw up the general program
for the disarmament conference.
If, within time limit as hereafter
fixed and after the coming into force
of the protocol, the conference is not
assembled or a scheme for the reduc-
tion of ornaments has not. been
adopted or carried out, the council Of
the league may record this fact and
each signatory will thereupon regain
its complete freedom of action. The
conditions on which the council may
declare that the scheme drawn up by
the international conference has not
been carried out and that, accord
ingly, the protocol has become null
and void. shall be denied by the con-
ference itself.
BY article 10 Of the draft all Of the
differences relating to the carrying
out or Interpretation Of the protocol
shall be submitted to the Permanent
Court Of International Justice.
Article IL specifies that the proto-
col. which shall be open to the