2. No Treaty, Arrangement, or Undertaking shall be entered upon in the name of Great Britain without the sanction of Parliament. Adequate machinery for ensuring democratic control of foreign policy shall be created. 3. The Foreign Policy of Great Britain shall not be aimed at creating Alliances for the purpose of maintaining the Balance of Power; but shall be directed to concerted action between the Powers, and the setting up of an International Council, whose deliberations and decisions shall be public, with such machinery for securing international agreement as shall be the guarantee of an abiding peace. 4. Great Britain shall propose as part of the Peace settlement a plan for the drastic reduction by consent of the armaments of all the belligerent Powers, and to facilitate that policy shall attempt to secure the general nationalization of the manufacture of armaments, and the control of the export of armaments by one country to another. FABIAN SOCIETY London, July 17, 1915. PROPOSED ARTICLES OF SETTLEMENT [Sidenote: Fabian Society.] The signatory States, desirous of preventing any future outbreak of war, improving international relations, arriving by agreement at an authoritative codification of international law and facilitating the development of such joint action as is exemplified by the International Postal Union, hereby agree and consent to the following Articles: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SUPERNATIONAL AUTHORITY 1. There shall be established as soon as possible within the period of one year from the date hereof (_a_) an International High Court for the decision of justiciable issues between independent Sovereign States; (_b_) an International Council with the double function of securing, by common agreement, such international legislation as may be practicable, and of promoting the settlement of non-justiciable issues between independent Sovereign States; and (_c_) an International Secretariat. _The Constituent States_ 2. The independent Sovereign States to be admitted as Constituent States, and hereinafter so described, shall be: (_a_) The belligerents in the present war; (_b_) The United States of America; (_c_) Such other independent Sovereign States as have been represented at either of the Peace Conferences at The Hague, and as shall apply for admission within six months from the date of these Articles; and (_d_) Such other independent Sovereign States as may hereafter be admitted by the International Council. _Covenant Against Aggression_