2. The United States assumes no obligatiou to pre serve the territorial integrity or pehtical independence. of any other country or to interfere in controversies between nations— whether members of the League or not —under the provisions of Article X, or to em ploy the military or issval forces of the United States undrsr any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless ha any particular case the Congress, which. under the Constitution, has the sole power to declare war or authorize the employment of the military or naval forces of the United States, shall by act or joint reso lution so prcrvide.
3. No mandate shall be accepted by the United States under Article XXII., Part I., or any other pro vision of the treaty of peace with Germany, except by action of the Congress of the United States.
4. The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its do mestic jurisdiction and declares that all domestic and political questions relating wholly or in part to its in ternal affairs, including immigration, labor, coastvrise traffic, the tariff, commerce, the suppression of traffic in women and children, and in opitrm and other dan gerous drugs, and all other domestic questions, are solely within the jurisdiction of the United States and are not under this treaty to be submitted In any way either to arbitration or to the consideration of the Council or of the Assembly of the League of Nations, or any agency thereof, or to the decisicrn or recom mendation of any other power.
5. The United States will not submit to arbitration or to inquir. by the Assembly or by the Council of the League of Nations, provided for in said trcaty of peace, any questions which in the judgment of the United States depend upon or relate to its long-estab lished policy. commonly known as the Monroe Doc trine; said doctrine is to he interpreted by the United States alone and is hereby declared to be wholly out side the jurisdiction of said League of Nations and entirely unaffected by any provision contained in the said treaty ,,t peace with Germany.
6. The United States withholds its assent to Arti cles .CLVI., CLVIT., and CLVI11., and reserves full liberty of action with respect to any controversy which may arise under said articles between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
7. The Congress of the United States will provide by law for the appointment of the representatives of the United States in the Assembly and the Council of thc League of Nations, and may in its discretion pro vide for the participation of the United States in any commission, committee, tribunal, court, council, or con ference, or in the selection of any members thereof and for the appointment of members of said commis sions, committees, tribunals, courts, councils, or con ferences, or any other representatives under the treaty of peace, or in carrying out its provisions, and until such participation and appointment have been so provided for and the powers and dtities of such rep resentatives have been defined by law, no person shall represent the United States under either said League of Nations or the treaty of peace with Germany or be authorized to perform any act for or on behalf of the United States thereunder, and no citizen of the United States shall be selected or appointed as a mem ber of said commissions, committees, tribunals, courts, councils, or conferences except with the approval of the Senate of the United States.
8. The United States understands that the Repara tions Commission will regulate or interfere with ex ports from the United States to Germany, or from Germany to the United States, only when the United States by act or joint resolution of Congress approves such regulation or interference.
9. The United States shall not be obligated to con tribute to any expenses of the League of Nations, or of the secretariat, or of any commission, or committee, or conference, or other agency, organized under the League of Nations or under the treaty or for the pur pose of carrying out .the treaty provisions, unless and until an appropriation of funds airailable for such ex penses shall have been made by the Congress of the United States.
to. If the United States shall at any time adopt any plan for the limitation of armaments proposed by .the Council of the League of Nations under the provisions of Article VIII., it reserves the right to increase such armaments without the consent of the council when ever the United States is threatened with invasion or engaged in war.
it. The United States reserves the riitht to permit, in its discretion, the nationals of a covenant-brealdng State, as defined in Article XVI. of the covenant of the League of Nations, residing within the United States or in countries other than that violating said Article XVI., to continue their coinmereial, financial, and personal relations vrith the nationals of the United States.