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to the small number of Powers at present participating.

But we think that it could be made so with the amend-

ments above referred to, the more important of which we

now proceed to discuss.

(1) It is obvious that under the procedure pro-

posed matters might be long delayed by a prompt re-

fusal of one or more cutside Powers to sign, or by de-

lay on the part of outside Powers in indicating whether

they will sign or not. To meet this we propose (our

paragraph 4 A.) that if by December 1st 1912 the

signature of all such Powers has not been obtained,

the Powers that have signed shall send Representatives

to the Hague to consider whether they may not neverthe

less

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to the stage of ratifications.

(2) Having regard to the provisions of succeed-

ing paragraphs there is no reason for requiring in

paragraph & a gap of six months between the completion

of the ratifications and the coming into force of the

Convention. We propose therefore to reduce this to

two months.

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(3) We propose to add to paragraph 9 a clause

stating that the date at which necessary legislation

shall

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