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The United States Senate and the World Court

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Manley O. Hudson
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 1935 , pp. 301 - 307
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1935

References

1 See the writer's analysis of the reservations, in this journal, Vol. 22 (1928), pp. 776-796.

2 For the texts, see 1 Hudson, World Court Reports (1934), pp. 16, 95, 102.

3 72d Congress, 1st Session, Senate Report No. 758. See the writer's comment in this journal, Vol. 2 6 (1932), pp. 569-572.

4 Records of these hearings were published at the time.

5 74th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive Report No. 1.

6 74th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 11.

7 79 Congressional Record, pp. 425, 916.

8 Id., p. 989. A list of forty references to arbitration made by the President without action by the Senate, is given in idem, pp. 980-982.

9 Idem, pp. 1196, 1205.

10 Idem, p. 916.

11 The Delaware resolution was not adopted by the two houses of the state legislature until Jan. 30,1935; but the Georgia House of Representatives acted on Jan. 17,1935, the two houses of the Nebraska legislature on Jan. 24 and 28, 1935, and the two houses of the Wisconsin legislature on Jan. 24 and 25, 1935. The telegrams sent by members of the Massachusetts legislature were dated Jan. 26, 28 and 29,1935. Senator Reynolds stated on Jan. 27 that opposing resolutions had been adopted also by the legislatures of Georgia, Illinois and Washington. 79 Congressional Record, p. 1222. The writer is unable to confirm this statement.

12 79 Congressional Record, p. 917.

13 The address is published in 79 Congressional Record, pp. 1221, 1222. See also his address in the Senate, in similar strain, on Jan. 24. Id., p. 909.

14 In a brochure entitled In re the World Court, published by the American Bar Association (1934).

15 79 Congressional Record, pp. 910, 1203, 1204.

16 As indicated by a vote on a “question of public policy” in 36 representative districts in Massachusetts, on Nov. 6, 1934, in which 62.3% of the votes cast were favourable to United States membership in the League. See the writer's account in New York Times, Nov. 25,1934.

17 The exclamation was excised from the printed record.

18 See the remarks by Senator Bulow (South Dakota), Jan. 29, 1935. 79 Congressional Record, p. 1215.

19 72d Congress, 1st Session, H. J. Res. 378. A favourable report on this resolution was made by the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on June 15, 1932. 72d Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Report No. 1628. See also the writer's comment in this journal, Vol. 26 (1932), pp. 794-796.

20 74th Congress, 1st Session, H. R. 4668. See also the letter of Professor James W. Garner, of the University of Illinois, in the New York Times of Feb. 10, 1935.

21 The Constitution of the International Labor Organization was proclaimed by the President on Sept. 10, 1934, and is published in U. S. Treaty Series, No. 874. On the effect of this action, see the writer's comment in this journal, Vol. 28 (1934), pp. 669-684.