¹ See this Journal, January, 1929, page 110.

² As to the history of the protocol of January 3,1929, it may be said that the Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration assembled at Washington, took notice of the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute and resolved, on December 10, 1928, to call to the attention of the parties that there were adequate and effective means and organs for the solution of disputes with the preservation of peace and the rights of states, and appointed a committee to report on a plan of conciliatory action. On December 14th, the committee proposed and the conference resolved to proffer its good offices to the disputants for the purpose of promoting suitable conciliatory measures. As a result of the exchanges thus initiated, the parties signed, in Washington, the protocol of January 3,1929. Although the protocol was fathered by the conference which concluded the Treaty of Conciliation of January 5,1929, and while it follows the spirit of that treaty, it was not, as a matter of fact, entered into under or by virtue of that treaty