2. Regulation prior to 1919..

3. Special provisions for Abyssinian arms trade...

4. Disabilities imposed by the Treaties of Peace..

5. Arms trade in territories under mandate...

6. Article 23 of the Covenant of the League of Nations...

7. The St. Germain Convention of 1919..

8. The Failure of the St. Germain Convention...

9. Preparation of a new convention to replace the St. Germain

Convention..

10. The Geneva Conference of 1925...

11. The Geneva Convention of June 17, 1925

12. Analysis of the Geneva Convention of 1925

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13. Proposals for the revision of the Geneva Convention of 1925.

14. The 1934 proposals on trade in and manufacture of arms.....

15. Arms and ammunition prohibited by international law.....

16. The 1925 Geneva protocol on poison gas----

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17. Publication of statistical information on the trade in arms..

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PART II. MANUFACTURE OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION

18. Disabilities imposed by the Treaties of Peace.......

19. The provision in the Covenant of the League of Nations..

20. Drafting of the provision in the Covenant....

21. Work of the Temporary Mixed Commission...

22. Convention on manufacture envisaged by the Geneva Con-

ference in 1925__

23. The 1926 questionnaire..

24. Draft by the Committee of Enquiry in 1926.

25. Work of the Special Commission......

26. The 1929 draft convention....

27. Further history of the subject

28. The General Disarmament Conference.

29. Work of the conference committee...

30. French proposal of 1933....

31. New initiative by the United States...

32. The power of the United States to enter into treaties relating

to manufacture of arms.....

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33. Analogies between the traffic in arms and the traffic in nar-

cotic drugs....

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PART III. EMBARGOES ON THE SUPPLY OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION

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38. Action by the United States-

40. Conclusion on the Chaco embargo..

41. Contributions made by the United States----

-42. An international program for the United States----

34. National embargoes..

35. Cooperative international action in China in 1919_.

36. Embargo proposed in 1933 as to China and Japan.

37. Embargo in connection with the Chaco War between Bolivia

and Paraguay-

39. Bolivia's opposition to the embargo..

PART IV. FUTURE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT OF DECEMBER 1, 1934

43. American draft convention of November 20, 1934.

44. Analysis of the American Draft Convention_.

45. Later history of the Chaco arms embargo...

46. Present situation as to the Chaco embargo-

APPENDICES

I. List of principal documents submitted with this report_
II. Text of the Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Am-
munition, signed at St. Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919----

III. Text of the Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade

in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, opened to

signature at Geneva, June 17, 1925..

IV. Text of the draft convention on Trade in and Manufacture of Arms

and Munitions, presented by the United States to the Bureau of

the Disarmament Conference, November 20, 1934.