Page 1 1 1 1 2 PROMOTION OF PEACE... CONTENTS Arbitration, conciliation, and judicial settlement. General act for the pacific settlement of international disputes- Replies received by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations Armament reduction _ _ London naval treaty of 1930.......... Washington naval treaty of 1922... Mutual guarantees- - - Proposed nonaggression treaty between Bolivia and Paraguay.. Renunciation of war.. Restriction of war... Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the sick and 8 Protocol concerning the prohibition of the use in warfare of asphyxiat- 8 Convention fixing the rules for the granting of asylum. Establishment... 9999 10 10 10 10 Treaty of residence and establishment between the United States and Convention for the purpose of determining the status of aliens.... Convention relating to the regulation of aerial navigation_ 12 12 12 12 12 222222 Air navigation arrangement between the United States and Italy.. Convention on the execution of foreign arbitral awards.. International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Convention as revised at Rome, June 2, 1928__ Convention revising the convention of Buenos Aires on literary and Convention concerning the formation of an international union for the publication of customs tariffs__ International convention for the simplification of customs formalities. Finance___ International Conference for the Unification of Laws on Bills of Ex- change, Promissory Notes, and Cheques... General claims convention between the United States and Panama.... 29 PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION Belgium Article 2 of the conciliation treaty between the United States and Belgium, the ratifications of which were exchanged on August 25, 1930, provides that an international commission shall be appointed to consist of five members, one national commissioner for each state and three nonnational members, one of whom shall be the president, to be appointed in common agreement. The United States has appointed as its national member Mr. W. Hallam Tuck, of New York, American representative in Belgium on the University Foundation. In collaboration with the Belgian Government the following nonnational members have been appointed: as President, Chief Justice José Figueroa Alcorta, of Argentina, formerly President of Argentina; Count Carl Moltke, of Denmark, formerly Danish Minister to the United States and to Germany; Professor Andreos Andreadas, of Greece, a director of the Ionian Bank, professor of history and political economy at the University of Athens, and a corresponding member of the French Academy. The Government of the United States has not been informed whether the appointment of the national member on the part of the Belgian Government has yet been made. GENERAL ACT FOR THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES 1 Italy According to a circular letter dated September 17, 1931, from the League of Nations, the instrument of accession by Italy to all the provisions of the general act for the pacific settlement of international disputes, signed at Geneva September 26, 1928, was deposited with the Secretariat on September 7, 1931. The accession was made subject to the following reservations: 2 I. The following disputes shall be excluded from the procedures described in the said act: a. Disputes arising out of facts or situations prior to the present accession; b. Disputes relating to questions which international law leaves to the sole jurisdiction of states; c. Disputes affecting the relations between Italy and any third power. II. It is understood that, in conformity with article 29 of the said act, disputes for the solution of which a special procedure is provided by other conventions shall be settled in accordance with the provisions of those conventions; and that, in particular, disputes which may be submitted to the Council or Assembly of the League of Nations in virtue of one of the provisions of the Covenant shall be settled in accordance with those provisions. III. It is further understood that the present accession in no way affects Italy's accession to the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and to the clause in that Statute concerning the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court. PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE REPLIES RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE LEAGUE OF MADE BY CUBA WHEN RATIFYING THE PROTOCOL OF REVISION OF THE STATUTE Albania According to a circular letter dated March 26, 1931, from the League of Nations, Albania informed the Secretary-General by a letter dated February 26, 1931, that it accepted entirely the reservations made by Cuba when ratifying the protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed at Geneva September 14, 1929. Norway According to a circular letter dated March 26, 1931, from the League of Nations, Norway informed the Secretary-General by a communication dated March 3, 1931, that it was not possible at that time to take a decision with regard to the reservations made by Cuba when ratifying the protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and that it assumed that the question of the putting into operation of the said protocol would, in any case, be the object of negotiations between the signatory states. Persia According to a communication dated September 19, 1931, from the League of Nations, the reply received from the Persian Govern ment, dated August 24, 1931, concerning the reservations made by Cuba when ratifying the protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice appears as follows:3 His Majesty's Government considering that Cuba's first reservation, which relates to article 4 of the above mentioned protocol, cannot take effect in the present circumstances, has no objection thereto. On the other hand, acceptance of the reservation regarding article 23 of the protocol involves difficulties which His Majesty's Government would prefer to avoid, and to which the Cuban Government itself might well give serious consideration. The protocol is accepted by almost all the states members of the League of Nations, and acceptance of the Cuban Government's second reservation would have the regrettable result of preventing the entry into force of article 23. As regards the Cuban Government's statement that the protocol will not affect the position of judges already elected, his Majesty's Government considers that the Permanent Court of International Justice itself should be left to decide this point. South Africa According to a communication of September 17, 1931, from the League of Nations, the following is the text of the reply, dated September 3, 1931, received from the Government of South Africa regarding the reservations made by Cuba when ratifying the protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice: I have the honour to inform you, by direction of the Minister of External Affairs, that the scope and significance of the reservations are not clear and leave some uncertainty, both as to the juridical situation created by the ratification in its present form, and in consequence, the legal implication to be deduced from an acceptance of these reservations. This applies more particularly to the reservation attaching to article 23 of the protocol, and in the circumstances the Union Government regret that they cannot express acceptance of the reservations. Great Britain ARMAMENT REDUCTION LONDON NAVAL TREATY OF 1930 By a communication dated October 9, 1931, the British Embassy at Washington informed the Secretary of State, in accordance with the provisions of article 10 of the London naval treaty of 1930, of the particulars on the laying down of H.M.S. Seahorse as follows: Classification: Submarine Date of laying down keel: September 14, 1931 Standard displacement: 640 tons (650 metric tons) 3 Official translation of the League of Nations. |