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The Geneva Protocol, by David Hunter Miller

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CHAPTER XVI. 66<br />

the Resolution of the Council of October 3, 1924, infra, p. 215.<br />

[5] For a statement of existing European armaments, see note to page 100.<br />

[6] Annex F, p. 263.<br />

[7] See the discussion as to this, supra, p. 7, showing that the "plan" will be another Treaty or Treaties and<br />

that the "carrying out" probably means ratification thereof.<br />

NOTE.--A statement of existing European Forces was made to Parliament on June 18, 1924 (Hansard,<br />

Parliamentary Debates [Commons], N. S., Vol. 174, page 2151). It gave the following figures:<br />

Great Britain ........ 155,935 Latvia ............... 20,000 Germany .............. 100,000 Lithuania ............ 15,000<br />

Austria .............. 21,500 Poland ............... 250,000 Hungary .............. 35,000 Norway ............... 16,000 Jugo<br />

Slavia .......... 130,000 Sweden ............... 32,000 Rumania .............. 125,000 Denmark .............. 27,000 Czecho<br />

Slovakia ...... 149,877 Greece ............... 110,000 Netherlands .......... 163,262 Bulgaria ............. 20,000 Italy<br />

................ 250,000 Turkey ............... 88,000 Switzerland .......... 500,000 France ............... 732,248 Soviet<br />

Union ......... 1,003,000 Belgium .............. 86,531 Finland .............. 30,000 Spain ................ 240,113 Esthonia<br />

............. 16,000 Portugal ............. 40,000<br />

Total armed forces in Europe, 1924 ........... 4,356,466<br />

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