Note 289 — Chapter XXIX · FOREIGN RELATIONS

The making of secret treaties continued, in fact, after the war began. By secret treaties France and Great Britain promised that Italy should have certain territories which were held by Austria and that Russia should have Constantinople. When the war was over the new government at Vienna permitted the publication of a whole volume of secret treaties that had been made during the preceding fifty years. The Bolsheviks in Russia also published all the secret treaties of the Czar that they could find.

In the covenant of the League of Nations it is provided that every treaty between nations which become members of the League must be registered and published.