PART I

_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_

The Western Boundary of Germany:--On the Belgian border Germany admits the full sovereignty of Belgium over the contested territory of Moresnet and over part of Prussian Moresnet. Germany also renounces all rights over Eupen and Malmedy. Luxemburg passes from the sphere of German influence. From Luxemburg southwards, the boundary of France is her boundary previous to the war of 1870, Lorraine and Alsace being thus restored to her. With regard to the Saar Basin, on the north-east frontier of Lorraine, there are special provisions. As compensation for the destruction of the coal mines in Northern France, and in part payment of the total reparation due, Germany cedes to France all the coal mines there situated, while she hands over the government of the territory to the League of Nations. After fifteen years the inhabitants of the territory are to declare by secret vote the sovereignty under which they desire to be placed, and if, in accordance with their will, the territory be returned to Germany, the mines must be purchased from France by Germany at a price to be fixed by a board of experts. As a guarantee for the execution of the treaty, the German territory west of the Rhine (_i.e._ north of the point where the French boundary leaves the Rhine), together with the Rhine bridgeheads, will remain in the occupation of the Allies, part of it for five years, part of it for ten years, and the remainder for fifteen years. At the end of these periods stipulated portions will be evacuated subject to the faithful performance by Germany of her pledges.

Germany is forbidden fortifications and constructions of military use within fifty kilometres of the east bank of the Rhine.

The Southern Boundary of Germany:--With Switzerland, the present frontier. With Austria, the frontier of the 3rd August 1914, from Switzerland to Czecho-Slovakia. With Czecho-Slovakia, the Austro-German frontier in this area of the 3rd August 1914, to a point eight kilometres east of Neustadt.

The Eastern Boundary of Germany:--Almost all of West Prussia and Posen go to Poland. Danzig with the territory round it becomes a free city. A portion of East Prussia is left to Germany, but its northern corner is taken from her and the fate of a southern portion is left for decision by plebiscite. The fate of a part of Upper Silesia is also left for decision by plebiscite.

The boundary between Germany and Denmark depends upon the will of the inhabitants of northern and central Schleswig. The nationality of the inhabitants of this territory is left for decision by plebiscite.

Heligoland will be rendered harmless by the destruction of all fortifications, harbours, etc.

Russia:--Germany abrogates the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and all agreements with the Maximalist Government of Russia. The Allied Powers reserve on behalf of Russia her right to obtain from Germany reparation.