The Archive · 1925

The Geneva Protocol Upheld by Canada

Arbitration and Other Clauses Needing Rearrangement Ottawa, Jan. 81. of Nations Soeiexy last night, Sir Robert Borden, the President, supported the Geneva Pro: cel.

He thought that the mat. ters sed in connexion with the janese amendments were irrelevfant to the question of participation in a disarmament conference.

He suggested, however, a more logical arrangement of the articles of the Protocol, making it clear that the provisions relating to compulsory arbitration and the defini fon of an aggressor and of sanc-jons were not binding on any na-

Vion until a scheme of disarmament the general provisions Protocol had been adopted disarmament _conference—Reuter's American Service.

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