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'League of Nations, Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, Geneva, 17th June 1925' [‎46r] (98/138)

The record is made up of 1 volume (65 folios). It was created in 1925. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Confidential.
International Arms Traffic ConforGnce, GenGva»
May—June 1925.
Report by the Delegates for India—
Major-General Sir P. Z. Cox, G.C.M.G. [Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade). , G.C.I.E., K.C.S.L, and
Colonel W. E. Wilson-Johnston, C.I.E., C.B.E., D.S.O., I.A.
TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD,
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.
My Lord,
We have the honour to submit a report of the proceedings of the
International Conference which met at Geneva in May and June of this year,
at the invitation of the League of Nations, to consider the question of the
international traffic in arms and to frame a Convention for its regulation.
The Conference, in which representatives of forty-four States took part,
and at which representatives of the Argentine Republic were present as
u observers," held its first meeting on Monday, 4th May; and the Convention
was signed on 17th June.
2. We do not propose to record in detail the long-drawn-out discussions
out of which, after six and a half weeks, the new Convention emerged;
the reports which we furnished daily and the proves verhaux and other
documents rendered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations' :i: * will no
doubt supply such detailed information as may be desired in regard to any
particular phase of the many questions discussed or to the views expressed
by any particular delegate. We will endeavour to confine ourselves to a
review of the course of the Conference's labours, and to some observations
on, and a resume of the discussion of such of the issues raised as more
closely affect India's interests in particular.
I.—Preliminary.
3. The task set before the Conference was the framing of a Convention
which should be acceptable to those nations which had either not signed or
had signed but not ratified the Convention of St. Germain-en-Laye of
I9th September 1919. That instrument, which depended for its efficiency
on the general thesis that the export of arms and other munitions should be
universally forbidden except in stated conditions, failed to be operative
chiefly because of the refusal of the United States of America, one of the
greatest, if not the greatest, of the armament producing countries, to ratify it.
The lead given in this respect by America was followed by the other producing
countries, and it soon became evident that the St. Germain Convention was
* for all practical purposes dead. But the idea of a general regulation of the
traffic in arms and munitions of war was too valuable to the cause of universal
peace to be abandoned without a struggle ; and the League of Nations
set itself the task of finding out whether the objections of the United States
of America could not be surmounted. The story of what followed is
recorded in the "Brown Book," C. 758, M. 258, 1024, published by the
League of Nations. After lengthy deliberations, at which an American
representative attended, not as active participant but as an observer, the
Temporary Mixed Commission appointed by the League of Nations evolved,
with the assistance, in regard to its more technical features, of the
Permanent Advisory Committee of the League, a new draft Convention.
This draftf formed the material upon which the recent Conference worked,
in the main ; but as a result of the critical examination of it by the
Departments of His Majesty's Government concerned, before the Conference
* It is uridersfcood that the League of Nations will print and circulate extracts of the
minutes of the meetings, in a form similar to that of the "Brown Book " dealing with the
events leading up to the recent Conference.
f See "Brown Book," pp. 17-25.
609 60 11.25

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The volume contains the following two documents: League of Nations, Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War: Convention, Declaration regarding the Territory of Ifni, Protocol on Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare, Protocol of Signature, Final Act (CCIA 91 (2)) and International Arms Traffic Conference, Geneva, May-June 1925, Report by the Delegates for India .

The delegates for India named in the second of these documents are Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and Colonel W E Wilson-Johnston.

The first of these documents is in both French and English.

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1 volume (65 folios)
Arrangement

There are tables of contents towards the front of the first document, on folio 5v; and towards the front of the second, on folio 45v.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 66 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 13, 13A.

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English and French in Latin script
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