![]() ![]() 282 to 295 of the Treaty of Versailles, and Arts. H., The Drafting of the Covenant ( New York, 1928), Vol. 1) specifically refers to the continuance of the Court of Arbitration organized by them ( Miller, D. Bourgeois, it is clear from the discussion in the League of Nations Commission that there was no intention to supersede these conventions, and the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (Art. 9), instead of “deeming” these procedures “expedient and desirable.” Although the Hague Conventions were not specifically mentioned in the peace treaties after the World War, in spite of efforts of the French representative, M. The quotations are from the 1907 Convention, but the 1899 Convention is the same with respect to the articles mentioned, except that the parties to the latter merely “recommend” mediation (Art. 39.Īll were parties to the Convention of 1907 except Great Britain, Italy and Yugoslavia (Serbia), which had ratified the 1899 Convention. Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, which probably are respectively the same states, are listed as bound by the conventions in “A List of Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America in Force December 31, 1932,” compiled by the Treaty Division, Department of State, Treaty Information, Dec. Serbia ratified the 1899 Convention and Russia ratified both before the World War. 1297 ff.ġ2 Czechoslovakia and Poland did not exist when the Hague Conventions were negotiated, but have ratified the 1907 Convention since the war. For full texts of former, see Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, Vol. The debates on the crisis in the British and several of the Dominion parliaments is summarized in Journal of the Parliaments of the Empire, October, 1938, Vol. The detailed chronology arranged by countries, published in the bi-weekly issues of this publication contains additional information on the crisis. ![]() Most of these documents are also printed in the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Bulletin of International News, Oct. 6 and various speeches and broadcasts by Hitler, Beneš, Henlein, Chamberlain, and Mussolini, are collected in International Conciliation, November, 1938, No. 21 the texts of the Karlsbad 8 points of April 24, and the Czechoslovak “fourth plan” of Sept. 3 Commissar Litvinov’s speech in the League of Nations Assembly on Sept. These documents, together with extracts from the important debates in the British Parliament on Sept. The documents connected with President Koosevelt’s appeal were printed in Dept. The important documents dealing with the Czech crisis were printed in British White Papers, Misc. but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.” If we have to fight it must be on a larger issue than that. In his world broadcast on September 27, 1938, immediately after his conversations at Godesberg with Chancellor Hitler, Prime Minister Chamberlain pointed out that he had gained the Czech Government’s consent to the Berchtesgaden proposals which “gave the substance of what Herr Hitler wanted,” and that he “was taken completely by surprise” when at Godesberg he “found that he insisted that the territory should be handed over to him immediately, and immediately occupied by German troops without previous arrangement for safeguarding the people within the territory who were not Germans or did not want to join the German Reich.” This attitude he found “unreasonable” but added that in spite of sympathy “with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor we can not in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in war simply on her account. ![]()
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