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Afghanistan, Ecuador and the Soviet Union in the League of Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Manley O. Hudson
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1935 , pp. 109 - 116
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1935

References

1 See the writer's studies: “Membership in the League of Nations,” this Journal, Vol.18 (1924), p.436; “Mexico's Admission to the League of Nations,” id.,Vol.26 (1932), p.114; “Admission of Turkey to the League of Nations,” id.,Vol.26 (1932), p.813; “Admission of Iraq to the League of Nations,” id.,Vol.27 (1933), p.133; “The Argentine Republic and the League of Nations,” id.,Vol. 28 (1934), p.125.

2 British Treaty Series No. 19 (1921), Cmd. 1786; 14 League of Nations Treaty Series, p.47.

3 Treaties have recently been made by Afghanistan with the following States: Persia, June 22, 1921,33 L. N. Treaty Series, p.285;France, April 28, 1922, 105 id., p.147;Germany, March 3, 1926, 62 id.,p. 115; Poland, Nov. 3, 1927, 74 id.,p.83; Latvia, Feb. 16 1928, 78 id.,p.99; Switzerland, Feb. 17,1928, 73 id.,p.323; Belgium, June 16, 1928, 97 id.p.97; Finland, July 17, 1928, 112 id.,p.9; Japan, Nov. 19, 1930,121 id.,p.237.

4 For a history of constitutional development in Afghanistan and the text of the Constitutional Law of Nov. 11, 1931, see 5 Dareste, Les Constitutions Modemes(4th ed. by Delpech and Laferrière, 1933), pp. 499, 501.

5 League of Nations Document, A.46.1934.VII.

6 Id.,A.54.1934.VII.

7 Verbatim Record of the Fifteenth Assembly, Sept. 27, 1934, p.3.

8 League of Nations Document, A.60.1934.X.

9 Records of First Assembly, Committees, II, p. 159.

10 League of Nations Document, C.444.M.191.1934; Minutes of the Council, Sept. 28, 1934, p. 5.

11 Minutes of the Council, 82d session, 5th meeting, pp. 6-7.

12 See, however, the admirable paper by Clyde Eagleton, “The Problem of the Admission of the United States into the League of Nations,” 10 New York University Law Quarterly Review (1932), p. 68; 13 Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée(1932), p. 632.

13 On the constitutional evolution of the Union, see 2 Dareste, Les Constitutions Modernes(4th ed.), p. 381 ff.

14 League of Nations Document, A.34.1934. An excellent account of events leading up to this situation is to be found in 11 Bulletin of International News (London, 1934), pp. 216- 224.

15 League of Nations Document, A.34.1934.

16 League of Nations Document, A.35.1934.

17 League of Nations Document, A.36.1934.VII.

18 On Sept. 18 the representative of Finland stated to the Sixth Committee that if he had been present on the previous day he would have voted for the admission of the Soviet Union.

19 Verbatim Record of the Fifteenth Ordinary Assembly, 9th meeting, p. 1.

20 Id.,p. 4.

21 League of Nations Document, A.60.1 Nations were represented in the Fifteenth Assembly at the time.

22 Fifty-two members of the League assembly, League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement No.102, p.21

23 Mexico and Turkey had previously been invited by the Assembly to become members, and on both occasions the invitation had been voted unanimously. See Records of Twelfth Assembly, Plenary, p. 37; Records of Special As934.X.