"OUR AIM WAS TO KILL WAR. THE SYSTEM ELABORATED PROHIBITS ALL OF THEM."

Thus says Mr. Benes, in Geneva, in his report on security and disarmament. And he proposes to the assembly of the League of Nations to decide on the acceptance of the protocol.

GENEVA, September 27. Benes, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, General Rapporteur of the Disarmament Committee, read before the Committee this morning his report on security and disarmament. It is a document of considerable importance which will serve as an interpretation of the clauses of the protocol.

According to the protocol, the situation is as follows:
1° The dispute arises;
2° The arbitration system begins to function;
3° The council intervenes and if war is resorted to by refusing arbitration, or if provisional preventive measures are not obeyed, the council establishes who the aggressor is;
4° The establishment means that sanctions of all kinds, economic, financial, military, naval and air, must be applied without delay and without further recommendation or decision.
In closing, Mr. Benès declared:

« Our goal was to make war impossible, to annihilate, to kill. In order for us to be able to do this, we had to create a system of peaceful settlements for all conflicts that could ever arise. This meant that it was necessary to create a system of arbitration, from which no international dispute, whether legal or political, could escape. The system developed, in fact, leaves no door open, it prohibits all wars and prescribes a peaceful settlement for all disputes. »
In the discussion which followed Mr. Benès's presentation, Mr. Paul-Boncour, the representative of France, asked a question and received an important answer:
- If a dispute, asked Mr. Faul-Boncour, breaks out between a member State of the League of Nations, and a non-member State and not a signatory to the protocol, and if the latter State resorts to war, what will happen to the sanctions?
The chairman of the committee, Mr. Politis, in agreement with the rapporteur, replied to Mr. Paul-Boncour that in this case all the States signatories to the protocol will have the obligation to put sanctions in motion against the aggressor State.