Arbitration, conciliation, and judicial settlement Treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between American states General act for the pacific settlement of international disputes.... Bilateral treaties of arbitration and conciliation__ Permanent Court of International Justice ___ Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Convention between the United States and Poland for the prevention of the smuggling of alcoholic beverages into the United States.. Agreement between the United States and Rumania according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters. - International convention for the protection of industrial property- Arrangement concerning the suppression of false indications of origin-Arrangement concerning the international registration of International conference on load lines. Convention on the tonnage measurement of vessels used in inland 16 PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL TREATY TO AVOID OR PREVENT CONFLICTS BETWEEN AMERICAN STATES On August 11, 1930, His Excellency, Señor Don Manuel C. Téllez, the Ambassador of Mexico, accepted the invitation of the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Wilbur J. Carr, to serve as a member of the permanent commission provided for by Article 3 of the treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between American states, signed May 3, 1923, at the Fifth International Conference of American States, held in Santiago, Chile. The permanent commission is now composed of the Minister of Uruguay, Dr. J. Varela, the Minister of Panama, Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, and the Mexican Ambassador, Señor Don Manuel C. Téllez. GENERAL ACT FOR THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES By note dated July 5, 1930, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations has informed the Secretary of State that the accession of Norway to the general act for the pacific settlement of international disputes, signed at Geneva September 26, 1928, is extended to the provisions thereof relating to arbitration. According to the information of the Department of State, Belgium, Denmark, and Norway have acceded to all the provisions of the general act. Sweden has acceded to the provisions relating to conciliation and judicial settlement and the general provisions dealing with these procedures. The general act is open to accession by states members of the League of Nations and by Afghanistan, the United States of America, Brazil, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico, Turkey, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 1" Subject to the reservation provided in Article 39 (2) (a), with the effect of excluding from the procedures described in this Act disputes arising out of the facts prior to the accession of Belgium or prior to the accession of any other Party with whom Belgium may have a dispute." League of Nations Official Journal, February, 1930, p. 244. BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION Belgium On August 25, 1930, the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. William R. Castle, and the Belgian Ambassador, Prince Albert de Ligne, exchanged ratifications of the treaties of arbitration and conciliation signed at Washington March 20, 1929.2 The treaties were proclaimed by the President of the United States on August 25, 1930. Australia PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE In a despatch dated July 18, 1930, the American Consul General at Sydney informed the Secretary of State that an order in council has been issued to the effect that His Majesty the King be moved to ratify in respect of the Commonwealth of Australia the protocol of revision of, and the protocol of the accession of the United States to the protocol of signature of, the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Cuba Paragraph 4 of the protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed at Geneva, September 14, 1929, is as follows: 4. The present Protocol shall enter into force on September 1st, 1930, provided that the Council of the League of Nations has satisfied itself that those Members of the League of Nations and States mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant which have ratified the Protocol of December 16th, 1920, and whose ratification of the present Protocol has not been received by that date. have no objection to the coming into force of the amendments to the Statute of the Court which are annexed to the present Protocol. The Department of State has received information that the Government of Cuba, a country signatory to the protocol of December 16, 1920, has addressed a communication to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations objecting to the entry into force of the amendments to the Statute of the Court as set forth in the Annex to the Protocol of September 14, 1929.3 New Zealand By a note of July 1, 1930, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State that on June 4, 1930. 2 See Bulletin No. 10, July, 1930, p. 1. 'See The United States and the Permanent Court of International Justice: Documents relating to the Question of American Accession to the Court (Publications of the Department of State, No. 44), 1930, p. 50. |