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 TREATY OF PEACE 
 WITH GERMANY 
 
 RESERVATIONS 
 
 REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN 
 
 RELATIONS TO ACCOMPANY THE TREATY 
 
 OF PEACE WITH GERMANY DONE AT 
 
 VERSAILLES ON JUNE 28, 1919 
 
 SEPTEMBER 10, 1919. — Presented by Mr. LODGE, from the Committee on Foreign 
 Relations, and ordered to be printed 
 
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TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 
 
 RESERVATIONS REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. 
 
 The committee also report the following reservations and under- 
 standings to be made a part and a condition of the resolution of 
 ratification, which ratification is not to take effect or bind the United 
 States until the said following reservations and understandings have 
 been accepted as a part of and a condition of said instrument of 
 ratification by at least three of the four principal allied and asso- 
 ciated powers, to wit: Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan: 
 
 1. The United States reserves to itself the unconditional right to 
 withdraw from the league of nations upon the notice provided in 
 Article I of said treaty of peace with Germany. 
 
 2. The United States declines to assume, under the provisions of 
 article 10, or under any other article, any obligation to preserve the 
 territorial integrity or political independence of any other country 
 or to interfere in controversies between other nations, members of 
 the league or not, or to employ the military or naval forces of the 
 United States in such controversies, or to adopt economic measures 
 for the protection of any other country, whether a member of the 
 league or not, against external aggression, or for the purpose of coercing 
 any other country, or for the purpose of intervention in the internal 
 conflicts or other controversies which may arise in any other country, 
 and no mandate shall be accepted by the United States under article 
 22, Part I, of the treaty of peace with Germany, except by action 
 of the Congress of the United States. 
 
 3. The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to 
 decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares 
 that all domestic and political questions relating to its affairs, 
 including immigration, coastwise traffic, the tariff, commerce, and 
 all other domestic questions, are solely within the jurisdiction of 
 the United States and are not under this treaty submitted in any way 
 either to arbitration, or to the consideration of the council or of the 
 assembly of the league of nations, or to the decision or recommenda- 
 tion of any other power. 
 
 4. The United States declines to submit for arbitration or inquiry 
 by the assembly or the council of the league of nations provided for 
 in said treaty of peace any questions which in the judgment of the 
 United States depend upon or relate to its long-established policy, 
 commonly known as the Monroe doctrine; said doctrine is to be 
 interpreted by the United States alone and is hereby declared to be 
 wholly outside the jurisdiction of said league of nations and entirely 
 unaffected by any provision contained in the said treaty of peace 
 with Germany. 
 
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