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Part I. 
The Covenant of the League of 
, Nations. 
The High Contracting. Parties, 
In order to promote international co¬ 
operation and to achieve international peace and 
security 
by the acceptance of obligations not 
to resort to war, 
by the prescription of open, just and 
honourable relations between nations, 
by the firm establishment of the under¬ 
standings of i nternational law as the actual 
rule of conduct among Governments, and 
by the maintenance of justice and a 
scrupulous respect for all treaty obli¬ 
gations rin the dealings of . organised 
peoples with one another, 
agree to this Covenant of the League of Nations. 
Article 1. 
The original Members of the League of 
Nations shall be those of the Signatories which 
are named in the Annex to this Covenant and 
also such of tho§e other States named in the 
Annex as shall accede without reservation to. this 
Covenant. Such accession shall be effected by a 
Declaration deposited with the Secretariat within 
two months of the coming into force of the 
Covenant. Notice thereof shall be sent to all 
other Members of the League. 
Any fully self-governing State, Dominion 
or Colony not named in the Annex may become 
a Member of the League if its admission is 
agreed to by two- thirds of the Assembly, provided 
that it shall give effective guarantees of its sincere 
intention do observe its international obligations,