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Covenant. There was adopted a resolution calling for the appointment of a committee of jurists to interpret Paragraph 5, Article 4 of the League Covenant with a view to determining the rights of members to sit on the Council when matters affecting their interests are being discussed.
4) Selection of Judges: Each nation nominates four candidates, two not of its own nationality (both plans). From this list judges are elected by two Committees acting separately, a General Committee composed of one representative of each signatory power and a Special Committee composed of ten members, one each from...
However, Mr. Lodge appended to his covenant several articles pertaining only to the U. S., instead of taking the usual course, appending these as reservations to U. S. ratification. The articles in question follow: ARTICLE LXV
This is a most unusual procedure. To ask other nations to sign the Lodge Treaty with these articles attached would be virtually equivalent to asking them to acknowledge that the United States is a specially privileged nation. It would require every country joining the Lodge Court to acknowledge formally the...
Of the World Court. "A proposal was sent to the last Senate by Presi- dent Harding for our adherence to the covenant establishing this court, which I submitted to the favorable consideration of the present Senate in my annual message. Other plans for a World Court have been broached, but...