Word: protocol
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...American culture are justified" will be the topic of the argument. On December 9 the Harvard speakers will journey to Holy Cross to dispute with the Crusaders on the subject: "Resolved. That the United States should adhere to the World Court according to the provisions of the Roof Protocol...
...Greek started the fight, taxed Cuba with being the sole objector to unanimous adoption of the World Court's so-called "Revision Protocol."? Already 24 League states have ratified the change. Indignantly M. Politis rose to declare that "a great effort of international goodwill has been made by all save one state. . . . Though it may not be fitting to criticize that state, does not this most unusual situation require some explanation...
Tucked away in the protocol of revision to which Cuba objects is a clause providing that hereafter World Court judges shall spend their whole time at The Hague. This displeases Cuba's World Court bencher, famed Judge Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play...
Months ago Mr. Hoover indicated that the Senate, during its short session next December, would be asked to vote U. S. adherence to the World Court. Even with the "Revision Protocol" blocked, adherence could be voted by the Senate with acceptance of the famed "Root Protocol," the two being parallel documents. But last week the President, far from whipcracking Cuba or preparing to wheedle the Senate, gave correspondents to understand that he plans postponement of the entire issue until next year...
...head-of-state in mid-June. Unexpectedly the State Department learned that Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, planned to return President Hoover's goodwill visit in mid-June. The prospect of two Latin-American Presidents-elect simultaneously in Washington unnerved the State Department's master of protocol to the point of requesting Dr. Olaya to advance his transmogrification...