Swedish Draft Scheme Based om Locarno Rules Suggested Stockholm, Feb. 5.
The Swedish Foreign Office acting on the invitation of the League of Nations Arbitration and Security Commission to the Swedish Government to draft a scheme for the furthering of arbitration and security treaties between various member nations, has now sent draft to the Secretary-General. of the League of Nations, embodying a number of important suggestions, based on the so-called" Locarnd According to this plan conflicts originating through one party dis puting the right of another should be referred to the Permanent International Court of Justice or to a special Court of Arbitration, Con-fiots of a different character should, after appeal from one of the parties in dispute, be referred to a conciliation committee and, unless a1 agreement is thus reached, to the Council of the League of Nations, according to Article 15 of the League Covenant, Judicial conflicts may also, with the consent of both Farties, be referred to the conciliation committee, before the case is brought before the Permanent Court or before a court of arbitra tion, The procedure of eomniittees of conciliation involves. that. con-fiots will be studied closely and independently by these committees before the eases are Inid before the Council of the League of Nations, thus making it possible for the Council to find the best solution and to reach a unanimous vote, The Swedish Government emphasized that many treaties along these ines have already been con eluded between two or several States and recorimends this form of procedure to be generally adopted according to the directions given by the League Assembly. The Swedish Government emphasizes that the principle of compulsory court of or arbitration pro= cedure in judicial conflicts is backed by public opinion in most of the
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