“Declares: 1. That all wars of aggression are and shall always be prohibited.
“2. That every pacific means must be employed to settle disputes of every description, which may arise between States.
“That the Assembly declares that the States Members of the League are under an obligation to conform to these principles.” (TC-18)
The fact of the solemn renunciation of war was taken in the form of a roll call, and the President announced that:
“All the delegations having pronounced in favour of the declaration submitted by the Third Committee, I declare it unanimously adopted.” (TC-18)
L. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.
(This treaty, TC-19, is discussed in Sir Hartley Shawcross’s opening address for Great Britain, to be found in Section 5, supra.)
M. Assurances.
(1) Austria. On 21 May 1935 Hitler made a speech containing this assurance:
“Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the domestic affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to attach that country to her. The German people and the German Government have, however, the very comprehensible desire, arising out of the simple feeling of solidarity due to a common national descent, that the right to self-determination should be guaranteed not only to foreign nations, but to the German people everywhere.