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The Geneva Protocol, by David Hunter Miller

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CHAPTER IV. 170<br />

Furthermore, as soon as the Council has called upon the Members of the League to apply sanctions, as<br />

provided in Article 15d, the said Members of the League may, in accordance with any agreements which they<br />

may previously have concluded, bring to the assistance of a particular State, which is the victim of aggression,<br />

their military, naval and air forces.<br />

<strong>The</strong> agreements mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be registered and published <strong>by</strong> the Secretariat.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y shall remain open to all Members of the League which may desire to accede thereto.<br />

Article 17.<br />

[Sidenote: Article 17 of the Covenant, with verbal changes.]<br />

In the event of a dispute between a Member of the League and a State which is not a Member of the League,<br />

or between States not Members of the League, the State or States not Members of the League shall be invited<br />

to accept the obligations of membership in the League for the purposes of such dispute, upon such conditions<br />

as the Council may deem just. If such invitation is accepted, the provisions of the Covenant shall be applied<br />

with such modifications as may be deemed necessary <strong>by</strong> the Council.<br />

Upon such invitation being given, the Council shall immediately institute an inquiry into the circumstances of<br />

the dispute and recommend such action as may seem best and most effectual in the circumstances.<br />

If a State so invited shall refuse to accept the obligations of membership in the League for the purposes of<br />

such dispute and shall resort to war against a Member of the League, the provisions of Article 16 shall be<br />

applicable as against the State taking such action.<br />

If both parties to the dispute when so invited refuse to accept the obligations of membership in the League for<br />

the purposes of such dispute, the Council may take such measures and make such recommendations as will<br />

prevent hostilities and will result in the settlement of the dispute.<br />

Article 17a.<br />

[Sidenote: Article 15 of the <strong>Protocol</strong>, with verbal changes.]<br />

<strong>The</strong> Members of the League agree that the whole cost of any military, naval or air operations undertaken for<br />

the repression of an aggression under the terms of the Covenant, and reparation for all losses suffered <strong>by</strong><br />

individuals, whether civilians or combatants, and for all material damage caused <strong>by</strong> the operations of both<br />

sides, shall be borne <strong>by</strong> the aggressor State up to the extreme limit of its capacity.<br />

Nevertheless, in view of Article 10, neither the territorial integrity nor the political independence of the<br />

aggressor State shall in any case be affected as the result of the applications of the sanctions of the Covenant.<br />

Articles 18 to 26, Inclusive.<br />

Unchanged.<br />

[1] This is my draft. See supra, p. 106. In the text it is called the "amended" Covenant.<br />

Transcriber's notes:<br />

In the source book, footnotes on each page were lettered from 'a'. For this ebook, each chapter's footnotes<br />

were numbered, sequentially from 1, and moved to the end of the chapter.

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