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Proposed Amendments to the Covenant of the League of Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

George A. Finch
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1922 , pp. 263 - 273
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1922

References

1 League of Nations Official Journal, January, 1922, pages 6-34.

2 The text of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which is referred to in this comment,may be found in the Official Journal of the League of Nations, No. 1, February, 1920,pages 3-12. It is printed in the Supplement to the American Journal of International Law,Vol. 16,1921, pp. 4-13.

3 Art. 399 of the Peace Treaty with Germany, Supplement to this Journal, Vol. 13, 1919,p. 365, and Art. 327 of the Peace Treaty with Hungary, ibid., Vol. 15,1921, p. 137.

4 League of Nations Official Journal, January, 1922, p. 32.

5 Monthly Summary of the League of Nations, February, 1922, p. 27.

6 This paragraph is inserted in lieu of the original paragraph which read:“For the consideration of any such dispute the court of arbitration to which the case is referred, shall be the court agreed on by the parties to the dispute or stipulated in any convention between them.”

7 In his letter of transmittal to the Members of the League, the Secretary-General, on Nov. 24, 1921 (Official Journal, p. 7) quotes paragraph 2 of the amended article as giving a period of eighteen months within which the required number of ratifications shall be obtained, but the text of the Protocol (Official Journal, p. 28) gives this period as twenty-two months.