Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Tear Gas Is Different. The Preparatory Commission wrote into the Draft Convention this civilized proposal...
Navies & Personnel. While proposing to limit land and air "material" (fighting equipment) exclusively by the budget method, the Draft Convention, so far as navies are concerned, supplements "budgetary limitation" by tearing a leaf from the London Naval Treaty (TIME, April...
...Treaty already limits three navies (U. S., England, Japan) directly by global tonnage and by categories; the Draft, proposes that all navies be eventually limited by similar means...
...matter of personnel the Draft Convention proposes that the total number of soldiers, sailors, marines, police customs officials and even forest guards (in short all armed "effectives") possessed by !each state shall be limited. Thus, within the bounds of possible crooked budget bookkeeping, the High Contracting Parties may have unlimited land and aerial weapons, but only a directly limited number of warriors...
Obviously a draft convention is not a treaty. What was adopted in Geneva last week for consideration in 1932 binds nobody, but may become the most important treaty ever to be signed. League officials estimated last week that the 1932 Conference "will break all records," prophesied that delegations from all over the world will total 3,000 statesmen, plus 2,000 wives & daughters, plus 1,000 correspondents...