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...Geneva, home town of the League of Nations, met 16 eminent world jurists, representing many judicial systems and institutes, to draw up a provisional list of subjects in International Law which would pro- mote peaceful international understanding. From a legal point of view, the meeting represents the most ambitious attempt known to control international disputes...
...bill was said to be economy. This theory won many of the Government supporters over to the Opposition and was said to have seriously jeopardized the passage of the bill; for many prominent Deputies averred that, if the country was too poor to send an adequate representation to Geneva to discuss humanitarian reforms, it was decidedly too poor to spend money in the interests of "mere sport...
Ambassador Sye's defense of China's withdrawal from the Geneva Opium Conference, recalls the fact that the world's drug trade still persists. Every nation has had its share of censure for the failure of that convention,--and the League more than its share. But who was really at fault is still hotly disputed, and Dr. Sye's remarks are a valuable contribution to that debate...
...Geneva, was held the 33rd meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, possibly the most significant deliberation of that body in the six years of the League's history...
...significance of the debate accompanying England's rejection of the Geneva Protocol for the outlawry of war is little realized on this side of the water. Mr. Austen Chamberlain's substitute proposal that England ally herself with France, Germany, and Italy for mutual protection of boundaries seems, on its face, a damming of the war stream at its source. For how should a great war start with these nations allied? But its ulterior significance is being widely discussed in England. It is attacked and defended as a counter alliance against the Russo-Japanese rapprochement which, though partially secret, is generally...