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Conditions of Withdrawal from the League of Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Josephine Joan Burns
Josephine Joan Burns*
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Mount Holyoke College
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Extract

Notices of withdrawal from the League of Nations during the year 1933 on the part of two States permanently represented on the Council, Japan and Germany, have turned attention once more to the provision for withdrawal in the Covenant of the League and to the necessity for interpretation of the scope and meaning of that provision.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1935 , pp. 40 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1935

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References

1 Another method of withdrawal, provided in Art. 26 on the ratification of amendments, has not been resorted to. Paragraph 2 of that article states: “No such amendment shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Member of the League.“

2 D.H. Miller, The Drafting of the Covenant (1928), II, p.327.

3 57 Congressional Record, 65th Cong., 3rd Sess., p. 4688.

4 Miller, op. cit.,I, p.277.

5 Idem,p.342.

6 Idem,p.342.

7 Idem,pp. 347-348.

8 Jean Ray, Commentaire du Pacte de la Société des Nations(1930), p. 111.

9 Cf.C.G.Fenwick, this Journal, Vol. 27 (1933), p. 517.

10 In commenting on the words “all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant,” Schücking and Wehberg simply accept them as obligations which must be fulfilled. “According to the words as they stand it is of no importance whether these obligations stand in immediate connection with the League of Nations.” Translated from W. Schücking and H. Wehberg, Die Satzung des Völkerbundes,3rd ed. (1931), Vol.I. p.373.

11 Miller, op. cit.,I, p.346.

12 Idem,pp. 338; 347-348.

13 Idem,p.351.

14 Idem,p.417.

15 League of Nations Official Journal, 1927, pp.505-508.

16 Ibid.,p.507.

17 League of Nations, Monthly Summary, 1925, V.5, p.8.

18 Fifth Assembly, 1924, Plenary Meetings, resolution to that effect, p.168.

19 Sixth Assembly, 1925, Plenary Meetings, p.110.

20 Official Journal, 1928, p.432.

21 Ibid.,pp. 1606-1607.

22 See Felix Morley, The Society of Nations (1932), pp. 329-330.

23 Speech by Brazilian representative on the Council, Official Journal, 1926, pp. 887-889; telegram from Brazilian Government forwarded to Council, June 10, 1926, p.1003 et seq.;also, notification by the Spanish Government, Sept.8, 1926, Official Journal, 1926, p. 1528.

24 Official Journal, 1928, pp.584-585.

25 Ibid.,p.778.

26 Ibid.,p.603.

27 Official Journal, 1933, Special Supplement No. 112, p.22. Siam abstained from voting.

28 Ibid.,p.72. (Document A [Extr.] 22,1933, VII, p.17.) See also M.O.Hudson, The Verdict of the League: China and Japan (1933), p. 19 et seq.

29 Official Journal, 1933, Special Supplement No. 112, p.73.

30 Ibid.,p. 75.

31 Official Journal, 1933, pp. 657-658.

32 Ibid

33 Official Journal, 1934, p.16.

34 58 Congressional Record, 66th Cong., 1st Sess., Aug. 4, 1919, p.3605.

35 58 Congressional Record, 66th Cong., 1st Sess., Aug. 4, 1919, p.3605.

36 Cf.H.C.Lodge, The Senate and the League of Nations (1925), pp. 309-310.

37 59 Congressional Record, 66th Cong., 2nd Sess., Feb. 21, 1920, p.3242.

38 W.Schücking and H.Wehberg, op. cit.,p. 373.