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The Rôle of the Great Powers in Treaty Revision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Harold J. Tobin
Harold J. Tobin*
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Instructor in Political Science, Dartmouth College
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Discussion of the need for revising the peace settlement of 1919 has focussed attention on the methods and rules which in the light of past experience might govern such action should it be undertaken. As general settlements on such a broad scale as that of 1919 are made but seldom, the last preceding one having been in 1815, it is not to be expected that each will remain intact until the next. The problem therefore besets the parties to such treaties, as well as other states concerned, how to modify those parts the usefulness of which appears impaired.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 1934 , pp. 487 - 505
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1934

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References

1 First protocol, Nov. 4, 1830; Martens, Nouveau recueil des traités, Vol. X, p. 77.

2 British and Foreign State Papers (hereafter cited as State Papers), Vol. 60, p. 499.

3 Papers, Vol. 61, p. 1198.

4 State Papers, Vol. 69, p. 830.

5 Hertslet, Map of Europe by Treaty, Vol. 2, p. 1575.

6 Feb. 6, 1922, U. S. Treaty Series No. 671, Art. 21.

7 May 6, 1891, State Papers, Vol. 121, p. 1020, Art. 14; June 28,1902, ibid., p. 1022, Art. 14.

8 Martens, Nouveau recueil, Vol. 10, p. 77.

9 State Papers, Vol. 60, p. 499.

10 Ibid., Vol. 61, p. 1193.

11 State Papers, Vol. 69, p. 830.

12 Hertslet, op. tit., Vol. 2, p. 1575 et seq.

13 Hertslet, op. cit., Vol. 2, p. 1575 et seq.

14 E. L. Woodward, Congress of Berlin of 1878 (London, 1920), p. 6.

15 E. L. Woodward, Congress of Berlin of 1878 (London, 1920), p. 10.

16 Satow, International Congresses (London, 1920), p. 5.

17 Ibid., p. 13.

18 Hertslet, op. cit., Vol. 1, p. 1, Art. 32.

19 Ibid., p. 18.

20 Correspondence of Prince Talleyrand and King Louis XVIII (London, 1881), p. 12, et seq.

21 State Papers, Vol. 2, pp. 578, 179, 651.

22 Satow, op. cit., p. 55.

23 State Papers, Vol. 60, pp. 497-8.

24 Woodward, op. cit., p. 29.

25 Ibid., p. 32.

26 State Papers, Vol. 69, p. 892 et seq.

27 State Papers, Vol. 2, p. 7, Art. 119.

28 May 8, 1852, ibid., Vol. 41, p. 13, Art. 4.

29 Cf., Hertslet, op. cit., Vol. 2, p. 885 et seq.

30 Cf., State Papers, Vol. 35, pp. 1072-1105.

31 Hertslet, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp. 1448-1450.

32 State Papers, Vol. 56, pp. 1050, 1058.

33 Ibid., p. 1069.

34 Fay, Origins of the World War (New York, 1930), p. 378 et seq.

35 Ibid., p. 438 et seq.

36 The Organic Statute for Albania was however signed by six great Powers. Cf., Martens, Nouveau recueil général des traitis,8 série, Vol. 9, p. 650.

37 State Papers, Vol. 61, p. 1198.

38 State Papers, Vol. 1, p. 151,Art. 32.

39 Preamble.

40 Miller, My Diary of the Peace Conference (New York, 1924), Vol. II, p. 4.

41 Miller, My Diary of the Peace Conference (New York, 1924), Vol. II, p. 32.

42 Bismarck is quoted as saying at the Congress of Berlin that the work of the congress could not, in his opinion, be durable if a sentiment of wounded dignity remained in the future policy of a great empire. (Woodward, op. (At., p. 37.)

43 Art. 244.

44 Art. 232.

45 Art. 39.

46 Arts. 92, 108.

47 Arts. 124, 125.

48 Art. 238.

49 Art. 244, Annex III.

50 Art. 430.

51 Id.

52 Art. 234.

53 Art. 50, Annex, Chap. III, Art. 36.

54 Arts. 203-210, 213.

55 Art. 163.

56 Arts. 182, 193.

57 Arts. 167-202.

58 Art. 433.

59 Art. 4-6.

60 Art. 48.

61 Art. 48, Annex.

62 Art. 14.

63 Art. 22.

64 Art. 280.

65 Art. 164.

66 Art.

67 Art. 16

68 Art. 11.

69 Art. 98.

70 Art. 4.

71 Art. 7.

72 Art. 6.

73 Art. 119.

74 Art. 31.

75 Arts. 86, 93.

76 Art , 99.

77 art. 100.

78 Art. 107.

79 Arts. 109-111.

80 Art. 88, Annex 1, Sec. 2.

81 Ibid.,Sees. 4-6.

82 Art. 95.

83 Art. 109.

84 Art. 35.

85 Art.80.

86 Art. 81.

87 Art. 87.

88 Art. 101.

89 Art. 87.

90 Art. 83.

91 Art. 280.

92 Ibid.

93 Arts. 276-279.

94 Art. 422.

95 Cf., Arts. 87, 88 (Annex), 95, etc.

96 Art. 227.

97 Martens, Nouveau recueil général des traités, S“” série, Vol. 14, p. 771.

98 Art. 431.

99 Cmd. paper, 4126, Misc. 7 (1932).

100 Cf., League of Nations, Official Journal, Oct. 1926, Special Supplement No. 3, p. 29; also Monthly Summary, Vol. VI, No. 9, p. 217.

101 Current History, May, 1933, p. 199.

102 The United States has never renounced any benefits derived from the Versailles Treaty Cf., U. S. Treaty Series, No. 658.