rsons living in the territories disannexed from Austria (Articles 78 and 80), Bulgaria (Article 40 Paragraphs. 1-4 and Article 45), and Hungary (Articles 63 and 64) to exercise their right to opt under certain conditions.
 Buza. ibid. 85.
 The Czechoslovakian Minorities Treaty did not limit the obligation of the government to elementary schools, but extended it to public education in general, that is, to higher educational institutions as well. See Article 9 Paragraph 1 of the Treaty. Halmosy. ibid. 92.
 This equitable share ("une part équitable") is not specified in any of the treaties. The drafters presumably meant proportional share, although then the question arises what the basis of comparison is: the minority population, the number and type of institutions maintained, or the number of those who used them? The Austrian counterproposal for the peace treaty, instead of allocating sums from the public funds to minority education and other purposes, intended to grant the minorities the right to impose taxes. See Balogh. ibid. 165-166.
 The flexible notion of "proportion considérable" gave rise to numerous debates both in the practice of the states and in professional literature on international law as well. The treaties did not stipulate how to interpret this, so the countries had carte blanche in this respect. See Buza. ibid. 82-83, and Balogh. ibid. 164.
 For example, the Minorities Treaty signed with the Serb-Croatian-Slovenian State contained a similar territorial restriction. According to its Article 9 Paragraph 3, the provision applied only to territories acquired after January 1913. See e.g. Baranyai, Zoltán: A kisebbségi jogok védelmének kézikönyve [Manual of the Protection of Minority Rights]. 74-75.
 Buza. ibid. 88.
 A similar provision is included only in the Lithuanian declaration (Article 7), and the German-Polish Convention on Upper Silesia (Article 70). Kraus. ibid. 126., 130.
 This was modelled on Article 12 of the Polish Minorities Treaty. The other minorities treaties contain the very same provision.
 See in detail in: Faluhelyi, Ferenc: Politikai vagy jogi kérdés-e ma a kisebbségek védelme [Is the Protection of Minorities a Political or a Legal Issue Today?]. Pécs, 1926
 The "procédure écrite" and "procédure non écrite" expressions had already been used by the minority department of the Secretariat. The former indicated Assembly and Council resolutions, the latter the method of implementation of the resolutions, that is, the rules of working practice.
 According to Article 5 Point 1 of the Covenant: "Except where otherwise expressly provided in this Covenant or by the terms of the present Treaty, decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of all the Members of the League represented at the meeting." See Hungarian text in: Halmosy. ibid. 42.
 Cf. relevant sections of the minorities and peace treaties.
 There are several examples to this, including the case of the Hungarian numerus clausus, in connection to which the Council gave time to the Hungarian government to amend the law. Another case was that of the German settlers in Poland when, besides the opinion of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the Council delegated a committee to help conclude an agreement between the settlers and government. A third case occurred when the Romanian government's proposal on the reparations to be given to the Hungarian settlers in Transylvania was accepted. See the description of similar cases in: Buza L.. ibid. 249-347.
 See Halmosy. ibid. 47.
 Ibid. 45.
 "...The Court shall be competent to hear and determine any dispute of an international character which the parties thereto submit to it. The Court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dispute or question referred to it by the Council or by the Assembly." See Hungarian text in: Halmosy. ibid. 45.
 According to Gütermann. ibid. 149. these expressions were known to and used by the minority department of the Secretariat.
 It was of great significance in the course of the procedure before the Council who the cho