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...Committee on the Sale of Arms heard the U. S. case stated by Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Minister to Switzerland. The Committee then referred ad interim most of the problems before it to a subcommittee. The Committee met to try to solve U. S. objections to the St. Germain Convention, which aims at binding Governments to control private manufacture and sale of arms and at stopping international traffic in them. It was understood that the U. S. Government considered the control of manufacture and sale of arms by private firms a question for domestic politics and one on which...
Meanwhile, the Treaty was reported to be divided into four main parts: 1) France pledges to stand by the execution of the Treaties of St. Germain, Trianon and Neuilly. Czecho-Slovakia pledges aid in the execution of the Treaty of Versailles; 2) Mutual pledges of support in case of aggression; 3) Agreement by both nations to abide by the Covenant of the League of Nations; 4) Articles concerning an economic accord...
Traffic in Arms. In a letter to the U. S. Government, Hjalmar Branting, ex-Premier of Sweden and Acting President of the Council, called attention to the nonratification by the U. S. of the St. Germain Convention, which aimed at limiting the traffic in arms by restricting private firms in manufacture and sale. The letter was to the effect that the U. S., through declining to ratify the Convention, had kept other arms-trading nations (Britain, France, Italy in particular) from ratifying the measure, although she had expressed "cordial sympathy" with the efforts to restrict the trade. The League proposed...
...Germain Convention 1) is not a plan for the general restriction of armament, inasmuch as it permits the signatories to supply one another with arms; 2) is objectionable because it prohibits the sale of arms to countries not parties to the Convention when such action might be highly desirable (as, for example, it might be desirable to furnish arms to some Latin American not a party to the Convention, but defending itself from aggression) ; 3) would require special legislation by Congress which the Government is not prepared to undertake; 4) is so intertwined with the League of Nations...
...Mussolini, Dictator of Italy, decreed that the words, Tyrol, South Tyrol and Tyrolese be expurgated from the Italian language. Even the Austrian paper, Der Tyroler, must change its name. In many minds the cession of the Tyrol to Italy by Austria under the terms of the "Treaty of St. Germain (1919) was one of the most flagrant contradictions of moral rights in the history of the peace conferences. Formerly a southern province of Austria, the Tyrol was annexed by Italy on purely strategic grounds. The population of the Tyrol is overwhelmingly Austrian; there are more than ten Austrians to every...