FOR WORLD PEACE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20173, 27 February 1931, Page 11

FOR WORLD PEACE.

ACCESSIcfcr TO GENERAL -• I ,*>'vn\' v /-'■* ■* i BRITISH\ GOVERNMENT'S SV: *- i s * *^ s *' * / . (BRITISH OmCllfc, Wla«jtesJ ~ r (fteceived, February- 26th, 5.5 p^)., , BUGBY, i^ebrutlry 1 Bsi T' A memorandum has been issued xs- - the proposed accession t of the Government t>f the United to v the General Act, -It was rfenpll««i|' ». the Optional clause delated, only r t6 justiciable dispute®, and it 4rm stp.eover- ' <the field of non-justiciable ditjjutejs jM>" * .that ill intentional disputes of irh£ffi ■ ove* charafttjer should $$ .eatable' of pacific solution that jJst Assembly jpfoduced ithfe sojckHed Gen-, eralAct. Its importance lieSdft thefaot that it Completes the organised system of "all-in arbitration/' Its initial cur. rency is for five -yeprs; from the itifsf : aeees&yJns in I9§t>., , "■ • ' The White* Paper painted out ihat ob the Pact of Paris provided fed machinery •far the pacific of disputes, the - signature of the Optional .Clause .and accession to the General-Act 'are" the logical sequence to the acceptances of tho pact. The Govenjunent, however,' conld only accede to the General Acfc'on con*" 1 ditipns corresponding; closely,'to thostf made fogafdin^'theOptio'rial Clause. These reservations a*e:-r-, , (i) Disputes arising prior" to the accession l to the Generikl • AeV ojr tts* lating to situations or factßpfc&rto accession, * , 1 (fi) wkich the pwtiea 1f the dispute t havo agreed, 01 shall Agfee, to hsya recottftse to some ethef toiethod'6f i 1 meat) Bfth& .trtfleff jßsgodftt ! „, Government* of ai>y:*»thGs j .• the 1; J^Mtue. oi: 3Stetfo»i Uwd&wf§,, mmbet 5f the Jritieh fill bf wW?h dispute* shall ,m such,» manner m the Jpfrttied liaVe (4) Disputes concerning <iuflßtiDjto Which by international