The Geneva Protocol, by David Hunter Miller

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Welcomes warmly the draft Protocol on the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes proposed by the two
Committees, of which the text is annexed to this resolution, and
Decides
(1) To recommend to the earnest attention of all the Members of the League the acceptance of the said draft
Protocol;
(2) To open immediately the said Protocol in the terms proposed for signature by those representatives of
Members of the League who are already in a position to sign it and to hold it open for signature by all other
States;
(3) To request the Council forthwith to appoint a Committee to draft the amendments to the Covenant
contemplated by the terms of the said Protocol;
(4) To request the Council to convene an International Conference for the Reduction of Armaments, which
shall meet at Geneva as provided by the following stipulations of Article 17 of the draft Protocol:
"In preparation for the convening of the Conference, the Council shall draw up, with due regard to the
undertakings contained in Articles 11 and 13 of the present Protocol, a general programme for the reduction
and limitation of armaments which shall be laid before the Conference and be communicated to the
Governments at the earliest possible date, and at the latest, three months before the Conference meets.
"If by May 1st, 1925, ratifications have not been deposited by at least a majority of the permanent Members of
the Council and ten other Members of the League, the Secretary-General of the League shall immediately
consult the Council as to whether he shall cancel the invitations or merely adjourn the Conference to a
subsequent date to be fixed by the Council so as to permit the necessary number of ratifications to be
obtained."
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(5) To request the Council to put into immediate execution the provisions of Article 12 of the draft Protocol.
RECOMMENDATION OF THE ASSEMBLY, OCTOBER 2ND, 1924.
II. The Assembly,
Having taken cognisance of the report of the First Committee upon the terms of Article 36, paragraph 2, of the
Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice;
Considering that the study of the said terms shows them to be sufficiently wide to permit States to adhere to
the special Protocol, opened for signature in virtue of Article 36, paragraph 2, with the reservations which
they regard as indispensable;
Convinced that it is in the interest of the progress of international justice, and consistent with the expectations
of the opinion of the world, that the greatest possible number of States should, to the widest possible extent,
accept as compulsory the jurisdiction of the Court.
Recommends:
States to accede at the earliest possible date to the special Protocol opened for signature in virtue of Article 36,
paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice.