[Sidenote: To procure release from obligations inconsistent with the
League.]
ART. XXV.--The high contracting parties severally agree that
the present covenant is accepted as abrogating all obligations inter se
which are inconsistent with the terms thereof, and solemnly engage that
they will not hereafter enter into any engagements inconsistent with the
terms thereof. In case any of the Powers signatory hereto or
subsequently admitted to the League shall, before becoming a party to
this covenant, have undertaken any obligations which are inconsistent
with the terms of this covenant, it shall be the duty of such Power to
take immediate steps to procure its release from such obligations.
[Sidenote: Covenant to be ratified.]
ART. XXVI.--Amendments to this covenant will take effect when
ratified by the States whose representatives compose the Executive
Council and by three-fourths of the States whose representatives compose
the body of delegates.
OFFICIAL SUMMARY OF THE TREATY OF PEACE
GERMANY
[Sidenote: The Allied and Associated Powers.]
The preamble names as parties of the one part the United States, the
British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, described as the Five Allied
and Associated Powers, and Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba,
Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, the Hedjaz, Honduras, Liberia,
Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Serbia, Siam,
Czecho-Slovakia, and Uruguay, who with the five above are described as
the allied and associated powers, and on the other part, Germany.
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