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9 Int'l Conciliation 618 (1923)
Draft Treaty of Mutual Guarantee Forwarded to the Secretariat of the League of Nations, December 19, 1922

handle is hein.journals/intcon9 and id is 628 raw text is: IV DRAFT TREATY OF MUTUAL GUARANTEE Forwardea to the Secretariat of the League of Nations By Lord Robert Cecil A. GENERAL i. The High Contracting Parties hereby agree that if any one of them is attacked all the others will forthwith take such action as they may respectively have agreed to take in ac- cordance with this treaty and any treaty supplementary hereto, provided that this obligation shall be conditional upon the reduction of the military forces of the party attacked as provided hereafter. 2. In consideration of the undertaking contained in the immediately preceding article, each of the High Contracting Parties shall forthwith reduce its military forces maintained in time of peace in the manner and to the extent set out for each of them in the annex hereto, and shall not thereafter increase them in time of peace without the consent of the Council of the League of Nations. 3. Each of the High Contracting Parties agrees to receive such military representatives of the League of Nations as the Council may desire to appoint, and undertakes to furnish these representatives with such information regarding its armaments as the Council may from time to time require. B. MENACE IN TINE OF PEACE (General) 4. In the event of any of the High Contracting Parties regarding itself as menaced by the preparations or action of whatever kind of any other State, whether a party to this treaty or not, or as being on account of its geographical posi- 1138]