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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

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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-
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