...existing situation. The Covenant of the League of Nations provides in paragraph 1 of Article 5 that except where otherwise expressly provided in this...Members of the League represented at the meeting. Express provision otherwise is contained in paragraph 4 of Article 15 of the Covenant, to the effect...

...Japan (until 1933). Additional permanent members: Germany (1926-1935) and the Soviet Union (1934-1939). terms of the present Treaty, decisions at any meeting...Members of the League represented at the meeting. 2. All matters of procedure at meetings of the Assembly or of the Council, including the appointment...

...League of Nations in effect granted to every member a veto by providing that, with certain exceptions, "decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of all members of the League represented at the meeting".20 The Charter clearly manifests a 14. GITunkin,...

...represented on the Council shall have one vote, and may have not more than one Representative. Article 5 1 . Except where otherwise expressly provided in this...Members of the League represented at the meeting. 2. All matters of procedure at meetings of the Assembly or of the Council, including the appointment...

...represented on the Council shall have one vote, and may have not more than one Representative. Article 5 1 . Except where otherwise expressly provided in this...Members of the League represented at the meeting. 2. All matters of procedure at meetings of the Assembly or of the Council, including the appointment...

...existing political independence of all members of the League." 5. Translator's note: The article reads: "Except where otherwise expressly provided in this...Members of the League represented at the meeting." 6. Translator's note: The full article reads: "Should any Member... resort to war in disregard of its...

...and the TGNU could not conclude a valid agreement in international law. 268 Article 5(l) provides: 'Except where otherwise expressly provided in this...Members of the League represented at the meeting', l l2 BFSP, at p. l5. 269 Str.fi. No. l2, p. 32. 270 Ibid., pp. 32, 33. 27l See lCJ Reports l966. p....

...conditions whose continuance might endanger the peace of the world." But alas! Article V. provides that "Except where otherwise expressly provided in this...Members of the League represented at the meeting." Does not this provision reduce the League, so far as concerns an early reconsideration of any of the...

...recognised national sovereignty. Article 5, for instance, stating that except where expressly provided, 'decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the...require the agreement of all the members of the League present at the meeting'. This made it difficult in practice to implement the apparently severe Article...

...to the general voting rule enshrined in Article 5( 1 ) of the Covenant: "[decisions at any meeting of the Council shall require the agreement of all...Members of the League represented at the meeting". This formulation shows that the two provisions differed in another important aspect: whereas Article...