Storord Library INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION Published monthly by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1924, at the post office at Worcester, Massachusetts, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PROTOCOL FOR THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF TEXT AND ANALYSIS CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE PUBLICATION OFFICE: 44 PORTLAND STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE OFFICERS Trustees President, ELIHU ROOT Vice President, GEORGE GRAY Treasurer, ANDREW J. MONTAGUE Assistant Treasurer, FREDERIC A. DELANO Division of Intercourse and Education Division of International Law Director, JAMES BROWN SCOTT Division of Economics and History FORMER PUBLICATIONS DEALING WITH THE Document 161 Disarmament in its Relation to the Naval Policy and the April, 1921. 164 Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition, and Protocol, signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919. July, 1921. 169 Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament. December, 1921. 172 Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament. Part II: Treaties and Resolutions. March, 1922. 188 The Reduction of Armaments: Report of the Temporary Mixed Commission to the League of Nations; Report of the Third Committee to the Third Assembly of the League; Memorandum of the Temporary Mixed Commission on the Defense Expenditures of Twenty-one Countries; Draft Treaty of Mutual Guarantee; Statement by Nicholas Murray Butler. July, 1923. 191 Debate on Disarmament in the House of Commons, July 23, 1923. October, 1923. 199 A Practical Plan for Disarmament: Draft Treaty of Disarmament and Security, Submitted to the League of Nations by an American Group; with Introduction and Commentary by James Thomson Shotwell. August, 1924. Syllabus XII Limitation of Armament, by Quincy Wright. 39 pages, New York, 1921. (Price 25 cents.) INTRODUCTION THE "AMERICAN PLAN" AND THE PROTOCOL The August number of this series was devoted to a description of "A Practical Plan for Disarmament," drawn up by a committee of private American citizens, which had received the official attention of the Council of the League of Nations. Any study of the Protocol of Geneva must begin with a study of the history outlined there, for the "American Plan," as it came to be callednot, however, by its authors-furnished the basis for much of the discussion of the Committees of the Fifth Assembly. Three members of the American committee went to Geneva, General Tasker H. Bliss, Mr. David Hunter Miller and myself. Upon our arrival there we decided to recast the form of the original document so as to secure a more ready acceptance of its various proposals. This recasting should be carefully kept in mind, for otherwise the history of the discussions in Geneva will be confused. "The Plan for Disarmament and Security" was broken up into two main divisions: the one dealing with the "outlawry of aggressive war" in the form of a Declaration which, when ratified, would have the force of a treaty; the rest of the Plan was divided into three resolutions to be presented for immediate adoption by the Assembly, two of them dealing with disarmament and one with separate treaties. The Declaration outlawing aggressive war consisted of the first eleven clauses of the original Plan with an additional clause inserted calling for the acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court. Of the resolutions, the first called for the establishment of an international staff for the inspection of armament; the second set up a permanent recurring conference on disarmament; |