The Delegates may also meet at kack other times and upon such other occasions as they shall from time to time deem best and determine
To the event of a dispute arising between one of the ontracting Powers
and a Power not a party to this Covenant, the Contracting Power involved
hereby binds itself to endeavour to obtain the submission of the dispute to
If the other Power will not agree to
Judicial decision or to arbitration.
submit the dispute to judicial decision or to arbitration, the Contracting
Power shall bring the matter to the attention of the Hady of Delegate
The Delegates shall in such a case, in the name of the League of Nations
a party
invite the Power not a party to this Covenant to become ad koe
and to submit its esse to judicial decision or to arbitra, and if that
Power consents it is hereby agreed that the provisions are chefortained
end applicable to the submission of disputes to arbitration ne desension
sball - in all respects applicable to the dispute bot is
against such Power as if it were a party to this Covenant.
In case the Power not a party to this Covenant shall not accept the Tavitation of eg to become ad hoc a party, it shall be the duty of the Executive Council immediately to institute an inquiry into the circum stances and merits of the dispute involved and to recommend sath joint action by the Contracting Powers as may seem best and most effectual in the circumstances disclosed.
Thereupon cesse
also unite in
If hostilities should be begun or any hostile action taken against
Contracting Power by the Power not a party to this Coversat before a
decision of the dispate by arbitrators or before, investigation report and
recommendation by the Executive Council in regard to the dispute, or con
trary to such recommendation, be Contracting Powers
all commerce and eommunication with that Power and
blockading and closing the frontiers of that Power to all commerce or inter
course with any part of the world, employ jointly any force that may be
necessary to accomplish that object. The Contracting Powers als
unite in coming to the assistance of the Contracting Power against which
hostile action has been taken,
their armed forces in it. hehalf.
In case of a dispute between states not parties to this Covenant, any
Contracting Power may "bring the matter to the attention of the Delegates the Excentives Conv
* who shall thereupon tender the good offices of the League of Nations
a view to the peaceable settlement of the dispute.
If one of the states, a party to the dispute, shall offer and agree to sub mit its interests and cause of action wholly to the control and decision of the League of Nations, that state shall ad for be deemed a Contracting Power.
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