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2. It has already been observed that the Plan as it
stands provides no sufficient sofeguards that the interests
of the smaller powers will be duly taken into account in the
Military Steff Committee. In order that these interests be
duly safeguarded, it is not enough that the Committee should
have the duty (as stated in the Plan) to invite any member
of the organisation not permanently represented on the Com-
mittee to be associated with it when the efficient discharge
of the Committee's responsibilities requiro that such a state
should participate in its work. What is also necessary is
that any member should have the right on its own initiative
to lay before tho Committee, either orally or in writing,
questions properly belonging to the Committee's field of
action, to have these questions discussed with the Committee in
the form of an exchange of views, and to receive on answer in
due course.
With regard to the actual planning of military operations,
the Netherlands Government suppose that the Military Staff
Committee could do that part of its work only to propare
campaigns against powers not represented on that body, that
is to say against the vanquished enemy powers (if no special
machinery were to be established to deal with thom), or
against the smaller powers, however unlikely it may be that
these will ever break the peace of the world. For such
plans must needs remcin unknown to those against whom they
are directed, and since the great powers are all ropresented
on the Committee, they would be exactly informed with regard
to any measures planned agoinst any of them. In this respect,
therefore, the usefulness of the Committee should not be
overestimated.
3. It will, no doubt, be understocd if the Netherlands
Government show a special interest in the proposed Intor-
national Court of Justice. They welcome the proposals con-
tained in the Plan for such a Court, in particular in so for
as they envisage the continuation, after the necessary
readjustments, of the existing Pormanent Court of Inter-
national Justice. Full opportunity should be giver to all
states to participate in the drafting of the Court's statute,
and it is hoped that to that end such preparatory work as
has already been done will bo found usoful. 1) Experience
1) An informal committee consisting of experts
from Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France,
Great Britcin and Northern Ircland, Greece,
Luxemburg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway
and Poland, who happened to be available in
London, has drefted a report on the future
Court of International Justice.
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