The Geneva Protocol, by David Hunter Miller

CHAPTER IV. 165
[Sidenote: Numbers 1 and 2 of Article 4 of the Protocol, very slightly changed.]
If the dispute is not thus settled, the Council shall endeavour to persuade the parties to submit the dispute to
judicial settlement or arbitration.
If the parties cannot agree to do so, there shall, at the request of at least one of the parties, be constituted a
Committee of Arbitrators. The Committee shall so far as possible be constituted by agreement between the
parties.
If within the period fixed by the Council the parties have failed to agree, in whole or in part, upon the number,
the names and the powers of the arbitrators and upon the procedure, the Council shall settle the points
remaining in suspense. The Council shall with the utmost possible dispatch select in consultation with the
parties the arbitrators and their President from among persons who by their nationality, their personal
character and their experience, appear to furnish the highest guarantees of competence and impartiality.
After the claims of the parties have been formulated, the Committee of Arbitrators, on the request of any
party, shall through the medium of the Council, request an advisory opinion upon any points of law in dispute
from the Permanent Court of International Justice, which in such case shall meet with the utmost possible
dispatch.
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[Sidenote: 3 of Article 4 of the Protocol, and the fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs of Article 15 of the
Covenant]
If none of the parties asks for arbitration, the Council shall take the dispute under consideration and, either
unanimously or by a majority vote, shall make and publish a report containing a statement of the facts of the
dispute and the recommendations which are deemed just and proper in regard thereto.
Any Member of the League represented on the Council may make public a statement of the facts of the
dispute and of its conclusions regarding the same.
If a report by the Council is unanimously agreed to by the Members thereof, other than the Representatives of
any of the parties to the dispute, the Members of the League agree to comply with the recommendations of the
report.
[Sidenote: 5 of Article 4 of the Protocol, with verbal changes. Eighth paragraph of Article 15 of the
Covenant.]
In no case may a solution, in accordance with a unanimous recommendation of the Council accepted by one
of the parties concerned, be again called in question.
If the dispute between the parties is claimed by one of them, and is found by the Council to arise out of a
matter which by international law is solely within the domestic jurisdiction of that party, the Council shall so
report and shall make no recommendation as to its settlement.
[Sidenote: Seventh paragraph of Article 15 of the Covenant, as modified by 4 of Article 4 of the Protocol.]
If the Council fails to reach a report which is unanimously agreed to by the Members thereof, other than the
Representatives of any of the parties to the dispute, it shall submit the dispute to arbitration.
The Council shall itself determine the composition, the powers and the procedure of the Committee of