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 preparations until the tribunal has decided, or the council has reported.

(3) To take concerted action, economic and forcible, against any signatory Power that should act in violation of the preceding condition.

(4) To take similar action against any non-signatory Power that should declare war or begin hostilities or hostile preparations against a signatory Power, without first submitting the dispute to peaceable settlement by the method indicated in (1).”

It will be noted that this draft does not propose to apply a sanction to the awards of the Court but only to the refusal of Powers to submit their case to the Court for consideration and award.

The League of Nations Society, formed later on during the War, went further than the Bryce proposals in its application of Sanctions to the awards of the Court, and the American League to Enforce Peace also supported the same policy, though confining it to action against an aggressive member of the League.

The chief interest in the Bryce report is that it rightly measured the assent that could at that time be secured for the idea of international action. To a few of its signatories the inadequacy of this internationalism for the purpose of world security seemed evident. My own view was that our scheme did not take