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There was already a plan in existence aiming at the maintenance of world peace ad infinitum. This document was called the Covenant of The League. The new ideas, it was decided, should not interfere with the Covenant, but should reinforce it. A protocol to the Covenant was the method adopted of putting the new ideas into effect. It was early decided to reserve the matter of disarmament for a special international conference to be convoked at Geneva on June...
...Protocol. All during September, the drafsmen labored on the protocol and then presented to the Assembly an elaborate document of 21 articles- 21 teeth that are to make the League's bite mightier than his bark. Ex-Premier Aristide Briand of France, chief French delegate to the Assembly, asseverated...
...declare to you, it is the most precious moment of my public life, this in which I stand before the nations of the world and say to them, in the name of France, that she has placed upon the protocol her signature." Forty-seven states followed France's lead in signing the protocol; all of them had something high and idealistic...
...hope, and with brilliant statesmanship he was able to stem the tide of criticism with his accomplishment in other foreign fields. He brought Great Britain and France together, he put the Dawes plan into execution, and he was a moving power in the recent Geneva Conference which adopted the protocol of arbitration and international...
...progress of the protocol on arbitration, security and disarmament was marred by a series of disruptive, though abortive incidents. New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Italy and Japan threw monkey wrenches of varying sizes into the protocol machinery. Through the masterly tact of Dr. Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, the situation was in each case?except that of Japan?saved. The waves of excitement of the Italian furore, in which France and Britain took a hand, were stilled by an allusion of Dr. Benes to Euclid?that as Italy was in agreement with Britain and that France agreed with Britain...