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     D.  Establishment of New Organization
           Without Reference to Treaties or
           Covenant
 
     A practical approach which would disregard legal
continuity as such, but which might conform to the 
practices at times resorted to by States, would be for 
the states desiring to establish the new general inter-
national organization to agree to the basic instrument 
for the new organization without reference to the 
peace treaties of 1919 or to the Covenant of the
League of Nations, and to proceed to act henceforth 
under the obligations of this instrument. This pro-
cedure might more nearly satisfy the requirements of 
international law, and might further be justified on 
the ground that the Covenant had lost its force by 
desuetude, thus leaving states free to set up a new 
international organization by agreement.
 
V.        POSSIBLE MEANS TO
            INITIATE SOLUTION
            OF TRANSITION
 
     With respect to the question of possible ways
and means of achieving the adoption of an appropriate
solution of the problem of transition, the following
possible means are submitted. They build be utilized 
with respect to the achievement of any of the Possible
Solutions explored above except D. Establishist of 
New Organization Without Reference to Treaties or
Covenant.
 
          A. States members of the United Nation, who are 
also members of the League of Nations, could before or 
at the time of the fortcoming conference of the United 
Nations initiate intergovernmental discussions on the 
formulation of plans looking toward the assumption of
the initiative by the League itself with respect to its
dissolution.
 
          B. Alternatively, the United Nations, while in 
conference or preparatory thereto, could initiate the 
transfer by indication what functions and responsibilities 
now exercised and possessed by the League of Nation, 
they would be willing to assume under the new Charter.
 
                                                       C.    A