_The Covenant of the League of Nations_ The Members of the League to be the signatories named in the annexe to the Covenant and other States to be subsequently admitted, the Members named in the annexe being the following: The United States of America. Belgium. Bolivia. The British Empire. Canada. Australia. South Africa. New Zealand. India. China. Cuba. Ecuador. France. Greece. Guatemala. Haiti. Hedjaz. Honduras. Italy. Japan. Siberia. Nicaragua. Panama. Peru. Poland. Portugal. Roumania. The Serb-Crote-Slovene State. Siam. Czecho-Slovakia. Uruguay. The League shall work through the instrumentality of an Assembly and a Council. Any State may be admitted to the membership of the League if its admission be authorised by two-thirds of the Members of the Assembly. In the Assembly each State which is a Member shall have one vote but may have three representatives. The Council (with a permanent Secretariat) shall consist of the five Great Allied Powers (the U.S.A., Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan) and four other Members selected by the Assembly. Until such election take place the four additional Members of the Council shall be Belgium, Brazil, Spain, and Greece. Each Member of the Council shall have one vote and one representative. Except in specified cases the decisions both of the Assembly and of the Council shall be unanimous to be effective. The Council will formulate plans for the reduction of armaments and will largely control the armament strength of the members of the League. Upon any threat of war it will take all possible preventitive steps. It will also formulate plans for the establishment of a Permanent Court of International Justice to settle international disputes. The maintenance of peace within the League is facilitated by the undertakings of its Members. Every Member agrees to arbitrate before going to war and to accept the authority of the Council in various ways. Should any Member resort to war it will be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League. Combined economic pressure is to be the first weapon of the League against an offending Member. The League may appoint Mandatories for the government of territories whose inhabitants are not yet capable of self-government. A State appointed a Mandatory by the League shall be responsible to the League for the government of the territory committed to its charge and must report annually thereon. The seat of the League is established in the first instance at Geneva but the Council has power to alter its habitat. Amendments to the Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Council and a majority of the Assembly. PARTS II AND III _The Boundaries of Germany and Political Clauses for Europe_