In his address to the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party on October 17, 1961, Premier Khrushchev assured his listeners that the principles of peaceful co-existence, whose source he attributed to Lenin, had “always been the central feature of Soviet foreign policy”.

The question of the legal basis for United Nations armed forces is one of immense practical significance for the future effectiveness of the organization in keeping the peace.

Election as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal and the assumption of the responsibilities of that post cause reflections on the distinguished history of this publication and upon our present objectives.

Four Continental Conferences sponsored by the American Bar Association recently brought together within a period of ten months lawyers from more than 100 nations to consider ways in which lawyers could work together globally to strengthen international law and legal institutions to make them more of a factor in achieving and maintaining world peace.

The establishment of a Communist regime in several European countries as a result of the Soviet military occupation and political influence shortly before and after the end of World War II (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia) caused these countries, as a rule, to follow the Soviet pattern or imitate each other in the field of legislation.

Sharing the waters of the Rio Grande and the Colorado Rivers, the United States and Mexico enjoy a natural resource of considerable economic significance.

Two sessions of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law will take place in 1963. The first session, from July 8 to 26, 1963, will consist of the following courses: The Function of Arbitration Today, by Professor Louis B. Sohn (United States).

The Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law will take place at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C, from April 25 to 27, 1963.

The Society has made available to members and subscribers to the Journal, and others, a compilation in mimeographed form of current official documents entitled “International Legal Materials.”

The Institute of International Law announces the subject for the G. Rolin-Jaequemyns Prize (1200 Swiss francs) to be awarded in 1965.

The United States Department of State and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are jointly publishing “A Catalog of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920-1945.”

Attention is invited to the policy of the Society’s library to acquire briefs of international law interest submitted to courts and arbitral tribunals in the United States and abroad.

Pursuant to §123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 940 (1954), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2153 (1959), the Agreement with the Government of the Argentine Republic Concerning the Civil Uses of Atomic Energy, June 22, 1962, T.I.A.S., No. 5125, required that materials transferred pursuant to that Agreement remain within the jurisdiction of the Government of the Argentine Republic or of a country with which the United States has an Agreement for co-operation.