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agree that the State or States, not members of the League, shall be
invited to accept the obligations of membership in the League for the
purposes of such dispute, upon such conditions as the Executive Council
may deem just, and upon acceptance of any such invitation, the above
provisions shall be applied with such modifications as may be deemed
necessary by the League.

Upon such invitation being given the Executive Council shall immediately
institute an inquiry into the circumstances and merits of the dispute
and recommend such action as may seem best and most effectual in the
circumstances.

In the event of a power so invited refusing to accept the obligations of
membership in the League for the purposes of the League, which in the
case of a State member of the League would constitute a breach of
Article XII., the provisions of Article XVI. shall be applicable as
against the State taking such action.

[Sidenote: Executive Council to take means to settle the dispute.]

If both parties to the dispute, when so invited, refuse to accept the
obligations of membership in the League for the purpose of such dispute,
the Executive Council may take such action and make such recommendations
as will prevent hostilities and will result in the settlement of the
dispute.

[Sidenote: Supervision of trade in arms.]

ART. XVIII.--The high contracting parties agree that the League
shall be intrusted with general supervision of the trade in arms and
ammunition with the countries in which the control of this traffic is
necessary in the common interest.

[Sidenote: Development of backward peoples a sacred trust.]

ART. XIX.--To those colonies and territories which, as a
consequence of the late war, have ceased to be under the sovereignty of
the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by
peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous
conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle
that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust
of civilization and that securities for the performance of this trust
should be embodied in the constitution of the League.

The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the
tutelage of such peoples should be intrusted to advanced nations, who by
reason of their resources, their experience, or their geographical
position, can best undertake this responsibility, and that this tutelage
should be ex