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independently, as it is proposed that it should be, and 
thereafter accented by the League through its process 
of amendment. Aside from any validity which this objec-
tion may have in fact, the same objection could be 
raised against procedure by separate protocol. In 
either case the validity of the objection would depend 
upon the effect of the protocol or the amendment.
 
     C.   Revision of the Peace Treaties of 1919
 
     Since the Covenant of the League of Nations is
a part of each of four treaties of peace of 1919 which 
became effective, the League might be dissolved and its 
properties transferred to the new international organi-
zation through termination of the appropriate parts of 
those treaties.
 
     This procedure would be open to the objections:
(1) that under the view that the Covenant is separate 
or severable from the various peace treaties in which 
it is found, the consent of the parties to those treaties, 
respectively, would not be necessary; (2) that, if the 
Covenant is not separate or severable despite the amend-
ment now ratified by l8 states, the consent of all 
signatories to those treaties would be ineffective, since 
the states parties to the four treaties of peace and the 
states members of the League were not and never have 
been identical; (3) that this procedure could not dispose 
of the interests of at least 13 states members of the 
League but not signatories of the peace treaties.
 
        Since the states parties to the several treaties of 
peace of 1919 and the States members of the League are not
now identical in most cases,  the view may be adopted that 
the Covenant of the League can be terminated only by 
consent of both the parties to the treaties of peace of 
1919 and the present members of the League. If so, an 
appropriate procedure might be to adopt a protocol of 
dissolution and transfer signed by both groups of states.
 
                                              D. Establishment