[Enclosure]
Draft Articles for Proposed Pan-American
Treaty
I
That the contracting parties to this solemn covenant and agreement
hereby join in a common and mutual guarantee to one another of
undisturbed and indisputed territorial integrity and of complete
political independence under republican forms of government.
II
That, to this end, and as a condition precedent to the foregoing
guarantee of territorial integrity, it is covenanted and agreed
between them that all disputes now pending and unconcluded between
any two or more of them with regard to their boundaries or
territories shall be brought to an early and final settlement in the
following manner, unless some equally prompt and satisfactory method
of settlement can be agreed upon and put into operation in each or
any case within three months after the signing of this convention
and brought to a decision within one year after its inception.
Each of the parties to the dispute shall select two arbiters and
those thus selected and commissioned shall select an additional
arbiter or umpire; to the tribunal thus constituted the question or
questions at issue shall be submitted without reservation; and the
decisions and findings of this tribunal shall be final and
conclusive as between the parties to the dispute and under the terms
of this convention as to the whole subject-matter submitted. The
findings of such tribunal or tribunals shall be arrived at and
officially announced and accepted within not more than one year
after the formal constitution of the tribunal; and the tribunal
shall be constituted not more than three months after the signing
and ratification of the convention.
III
That the high contracting parties severally pledge themselves to
obtain and establish by law such control of the manufacture and
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sale of munitions of war
within their respective jurisdictions as will enable them absolutely
to control and make them responsible for the sale and shipment of
such munitions to any other of the nations who are parties to this
convention.
IV
That the high contracting parties further agree, First, that all
questions, of whatever character, arising between any two or more of
them which cannot be settled by the ordinary means of diplomatic
correspondence shall, before any declaration of war or beginning of
hostilities, be first submitted to a permanent international
commission for investigation, one year being allowed for such
investigation; and, Second, that, if the dispute is not settled by
investigation, to submit the same to arbitration, provided the
question in dispute does not affect the honour, independence, or
vital interests of the nations concerned or the interests of third
parties; and the high contracting parties hereby agree, where this
has not already been done, to enter into treaty, each with all of
the others severally, to carry out the provisions of this
Article.
