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...Justice or the Council of the League of Nations (constituted as courts of arbitration), or those who fail to carry out the decisions of the courts of arbitration. In the event of a nation embarking upon aggressive warfare in defiance of the aforesaid decision, the signatory Powers of the protocol (to the Covenant of the League) are to engage to participate in enforcing naval, military or economic sanctions (punitive measures) against the nation declared the aggressor. The territory and political and economic independence of an aggressor nation are always to be respected. Thus the world status...
...sanctions are to be enforced under a system of regional agreements. Thus, trouble from Hungary would affect only the States in that region. Any country, member or nonmember of the League, may sign the protocol by giving notice to the League Council...
...important change in the Covenant was proposed. Article XII* is to be amended. The first sentence is to end "and they agree in no case to resort to war, except in repelling attack." The whole protocol was subordinated to the question of disarmament which is to be thrashed out at an international conference to be held at Geneva on June...
...morrow of the day following the signing of the protocol France ordered the evacuation of the towns of Offenburg and Appenweier in Baden...
Future. As Ramsay MacDonald pointed out (see above) success has not yet been achieved. What has happened is rather that the tangled skein of international wool (misunderstandings, etc.) has been unravelled. The Protocol and annexes have yet to be ratified by the respective Governments, failure to do which might well leave the world where it was before. Germany has to pass the laws necessary to the operation of the Experts' Plan, and to do so must pacify the Monarchists in order to secure a two-thirds majority. Looming in the future are dangerous rocks around which the Governments...