7 APRIL 1928, Page 17

SWITZERLAND AND DISARMAMENT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In

M. Martin's article in your issue of the 24th, there is an implication that the Covenant of the League obliges States-members to maintain a certain minimum level of armament for self-defence and for participation in such military sanctions as the Council may advi4e.

Article VIII., paragraph 4, of the Covenant envisages a maximum level, but I have searched the Covenant in vain for any provision obliging a State-member to maintain armaments, or forbidding it, if it so desired, to abolish its armaments altogether.—I am, Sir, &o.,

LEONARD F. BEHRENS.

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