Word: protocol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bolivia-Paraguay. The squabble arising from bloody skirmishes between Bolivian and Paraguayan frontier troops was finally squelched, last week, when Delegates of both republics signed at Washington a special Protocol of Conciliation, setting up a board of nine judges to investigate, adjudicate...
...doubtful precedent of The Hague, which proved to be not even an annoyance to the activities of Mars, the League has been forced to learn solely through its own mistakes. The Russo-Polish War, the Upper Silesla affair, the massacre at Smyrna the occupation of Corfu the Geneva protocol the Greco-Bulgarian frontier altercation, and the squabble during last year between Brazil and Spain have been the annual causes of "I told you sols" from the irreconcilables of post-bellum days: largely because the meetings of the League to consider problems have been too tardy...
...Moscow, last week, "emphatically" was inserted in a Russo-Swiss protocol resuming diplomatic relations between these countries...
Began consideration of the Geneva protocol prohibiting use of poison gas in warfare...
...were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists of the old Hague Courtbe extended to nominate the World Court judges...