American World PoliciesGeorge H. Doran Company, 1920 - 243 pages |
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accept action ad interim advise agree Allied and Associated amendment American arbitration Armenia armistice Article XXI Assembly Associated Powers authority British British Empire Chargé d'Affaires claims Congress consent Constitution coöperation coun Council Covenant covenant-breaking DAVID JAYNE HILL decision declared demand dispute duty effect Empire enforce engaged Entente ernment established Europe Executive existing fact force foreign France German Government guarantee honor imperial interest International Law justice League of Nations matter ment military Monroe Doctrine nant necessary negotiations neutral obligations October October 23 organization party peace with Germany plébiscite pledge present President President's principles proposed protection provisions purpose questions ratification refusal regarding regional understandings Reichstag relations render representative reservations resolution responsibility ROBERT LANSING secure Senate settlement signatory super-government surrender Switzerland terms of peace ternational territorial integrity tion tional Treaty of Peace Treaty of Versailles treaty-making United vote whole Wilson
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Page 222 - Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League, and the League shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations.
Page 229 - Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, the prohibition of abuses such as the slave trade, the arms traffic and the liquor traffic, and the prevention of the establishment of fortifications or military and naval bases and of military training of the natives for other than police purposes and the defense of territory, and will also secure...
Page 199 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 200 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Page 223 - It is also declared to be the friendly right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly or of the Council any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.
Page 199 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 218 - THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with...
Page 216 - By it they understand that compensation will be made by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea, and from the air.
Page 201 - Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan States to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan States should be entered into.
Page 220 - All matters of procedure at meetings of the Assembly or of the Council, including the appointment of Committees to investigate particular matters, shall be regulated by the Assembly or by the Council and may be decided by a majority of the Members of the .League represented at the meeting.