The grounds on which the Council may declare that the plan drawn up by the International Conference for the Reduction of Armaments has not been carried out, and that in consequence the present Protocol has been rendered null and void, shall be laid down by the Conference itself.

A signatory State which, after the expiration of the period fixed by the Conference, fails to comply with the plan adopted by the Conference, shall not be admitted to benefit by the provisions of the present Protocol.

In faith whereof the Undersigned, duly authorised for this purpose, have signed the present Protocol.

DONE at Geneva, on the second day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, in a single copy, which will be kept in the archives of the Secretariat of the League and registered by it on the date of its coming into force.

ANNEX C.

GENERAL REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FIFTH ASSEMBLY
ON BEHALF OF THE FIRST AND THIRD COMMITTEES
BY M. POLITIS (GREECE) AND M. BENES
(CZECHOSLOVAKIA).

I

INTRODUCTION.