The League of Nations has begun the publication of a
Treaty Series, as a supplement to its official journal (Harrison, Is. not). The first number contains the texts, in English and French, of nine treaties or engagements which, under Article 18 of the Covenant, have been registered with the secretariat, have thereby become binding, and are now published. The most important of these is the Anglo-Japanese declaration of July 8th last, stating that the agreement of 1911 is "not entirely consistent with the letter" of the Covenant, and that "if the said agree- ment be continued after July, 1921, it must ho in a form which is not inconsistent with that Covenant." The convenience of this" Treaty Series" is obvious ; it will replace the semi- official collections of treaties upon which diplomatists and lawyers have hitherto had to depend.
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