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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
Resolved, That the committee adopts as the basis for consideration of the subject referred to it, the Acts and Resolutions of the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in the year 1907.
That the provisions of the several plans for an International Court of Justice already elaborated by representative jurists of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, be laid before the committee and considered as the subjects to which they respectively relate, are taken up for consideration.
1 The resolution as adopted by the Committee reads as follows:
"The Committee begins its deliberations by rendering in the first instance homage to trie labors of the Peace Conferences of The Hague, which have already prepared with exceptional authority the solution of the problem of the organization of a court of international justice.
"Ready to consider in addition the projects emanating from governments, from conferences initiated by governments, of scientific international associations, and of jurists of every nationality, whose labors have preceded its own, it will take note of all sources of information which are at its disposition in order to justify the confidence of the Society of Nations."
