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the next meeting of the Committee.
Taking the original draft first, you will ob-
serve that all reference to the word adhesion disap-
pears, and that the procedure contemplated is to ob-
tain the signature of the representatives of outside
Powers to the Convention, which would thus put such
Powers on the same footing with the original Signa-
tories. Then would come ratification by the Signatory
Powers thus reinforced; then the coming into force of
the Convention; and then the framing by the Powers Lf-
fected of the requisite legislation. Finally, if with-
in two years of the signing of the original Convention
the universal ratification thus contemplated has not
been obtained, a fresh conference of all the Signatory
Powers, original and supplementury, would be called to
consider how far the Convention muy, nevertheless, be
carried out.
We cannot consider the craft as it at present
stende a satisfactory solution of the practical diffi-
culties with which we have been throughout beset owing
to