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Tentative Draft of a Declaration for Open Diplomacy5

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The Powers signatory to the Agreement for an Association of Nations declare as a part of said Agreement:

Open Diplomacy

1.
All treaties and international agreements heretofore made and now in force, to which any signatory Power is a party, shall be made public in their entirety within not more than thirty days after said Agreement for an Association of Nations shall become binding.
2.
Every treaty and international agreement hereafter made, to which any signatory Power shall be a party, shall be made public in its entirety within not more than thirty days after the same shall become binding, or shall otherwise not be deemed valid or enforceable.
3.
The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to a treaty or international agreement made by a signatory Power while engaged in war, in which case the treaty or international agreement shall be made public in its entirety within not more than thirty days after the conclusion of peace or shall otherwise not be deemed valid or enforceable.
  1. Reprinted from Miller, My Diary, vol. ii, p. 155.↩