London, Sept. 7.
Belgium, Sweden, and Holland have informed the Foreign Office, in connection with the forthcoming meeting of the League Council, that they do not intend to continue considering the application of Article XVI of the League Covenant as involving the automatic enforcement of sanctions.
This demarche was taken in connection with the present international situation.
It may be recalled that the question of the revision of the League Covenant and Article XVI has been discussed for the past year and is to be reconsidered at the League meeting.
Several Governments, since the Ethiopiar affair, considered that the Article in question had lost a considerable amount of its value.—Havas.
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