Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

The 1925 Geneva Protocol was actually the League of Nations Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. 

That the High Contracting Parties, so far as they are not already Parties to Treaties prohibiting such use, accept this prohibition, agree to extend this prohibition to the use of bacteriological methods of warfare and agree to be bound as between themselves according to the terms of this declaration. 

Nevertheless, by 192. it was considered sufficiently feasible for the prohibition of bacteriological methods of warfare to be included within the scope of the Geneva Protocol. No nation at this... 

Other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare Geneva, 1925... 

This protocol also encompassed bacteriological methods of warfare. ... 

Many countries voted against the use of chemicals as weapons and signed the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gas, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare in 1925 at Geneva. Meanwhile, however, the development of poisonous chemicals to kill, incapacitate, or irritate enemy soldiers continued. During World War n, nerve agents such as tabun and... 

PROTOCOL FOR THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WAR OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE, 1925 (GENEVA PROTOCOL OF 1925)... 

Ltr, Secy State to SW, 12 Jan 42. Referred to in Memo, ACofS WPD for CoS, 4 Feb 42, sub Prohibition of Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. WPD 165-21. The British had attempted in December 1941 to obtain a statement of this nature from the Japane.se but without much success. See reference to this attempt in Ltr, Secy State to SW, 17 Dec 42, with proposed communique by British Government. OPD 385 CWP, sec IIA. 

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