[[1]] September 25, 1923. Technically, the resolution was not adopted, the vote not being unanimous, 29 in favor, one, Persia, opposed, and 22 absent or abstaining. League of Nations Official Journal, October, 1923, Special Supplement No. 11, p. 34.

[[2]] i. e., so far as the Guarantor States are concerned.

[[3]] In the debates of the First Committee of the Fourth Assembly it was asserted that "no forcible invasion" is possible without a violation of Article 10 of the Covenant; but in certain circumstances war is permissible under the Covenant (Article 15, Paragraph 7); and with a permissible war, there could be a permissible invasion. See Oppenheim,

[[4]] i. e., no aggression, in the sense intended by the Protocol.

CHAPTER XV.

THE PROTOCOL AS TO NON-SIGNATORIES.