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...Geneva, the Secretariat of the League of Nations, under the able direction of Secretary General Sir James Eric Drummond, concerned itself with the following...
Professor Manley O. Hudson G'10, Bemis Professor of International Law and member of the Legal section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, was clearly disappointed with the President's stand on the World Court. He said, "The President's insistence on the 'recommendation which is now before the Senate' with reference to the Permanent Court of International Justice is welcome, indeed, but it is to be regretted that he now attaches a further condition. The advisory opinions given by the Court do not bind any State; and I can see no reason for our putting a condition...
Professor Hudson was a member of the Legal Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, while the Statute of the Court was being drafted in 1920 and while the judges were being elected in 1921 and 1923. In the second part of his work he speaks not only as one of the Court's most enthusiastic supporters, but as a student who has had unusual opportunities to study it in operation from close range...
...President continued to take his time in selecting a successor to the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. The delay prompted many suggestions that Assistant Secretary Howard M. Gore be given the Secretariat until Mar. 4, when he becomes Governor of West Virginia, a post to which he was elected in the last great balloting...
Professor Hudson, who took as his subject "The Stacking of the Cards", admitted that the next war was by no means inevitable, and declared that the League of Nations was the surest means of prevention. His intimate experience as a member of the Secretariat of the League has given him an unusual insight to the influence it works in Europe which are likely to contribute to another...