PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION Hungary The international commission provided for in article 2 of the treaty of conciliation between the United States and Hungary, signed January 26, 1929, has been completed by the appointment of the following members: Italy Joint commissioner: Señor Licenciado González Roa, of Mexico, Legal Adviser to the Mexican Government; former Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department; Mexican Commissioner on Special Claims Commission, United States and Mexico; delegate to the Sixth International Conference of American States, held at Habana, January, 1928, and to the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration, held at Washington, December, 1928. Commissioners on the part of the United States: National: Mr. Jeremiah Smith, jr., adviser on financial questions at the Paris Peace Conference; Commissioner General of the League of Nations for Hungary 19241926, in charge of financial reconstruction of Hungary. Nonnational: Dr. Carlos A. Urueta, of Colombia, Minister of Colombia to the United States 1917-1921; member of Advisory Board of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Commissioners on the part of Hungary: National: Dr. Alexis de Boér, Justice of the Royal Hungarian Court of Chancery. Nonnational: Mr. Villem Jan Marie Eysing, of the Netherlands, professor in the University of Leyden. The international commission provided for in article 2 of the conciliation treaty with Italy, signed May 5, 1914, has been completed by the appointment of the following members: Joint commissioner: Judge Helge Klaestad, of Oslo, Norway, Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway. Commissioners on the part of the United States: National: Mr. Henry P. Fletcher, former Under Secretary Commissioners on the part of Italy: National: Senator Vittorio Scialoja, professor of law in University of Rome; member of the Italian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and head of the Delegation to the Sixth Assembly of the League of Nations and the Locarno Conference. Nonnational: Viscount Van Iseghem, of Belgium, President Emeritus of the Court of Cassation. PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE RESERVATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA WHEN RATIFYING THE PROTOCOL 1 Bulgaria According to a circular letter, dated March 21, 1931, from the Secretariat of the League of Nations, the Bulgarian Government accepts the reservations made by the Cuban Government when ratifying the protocol concerning the revision of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed at Geneva, September 14. 1929. The reservations made by the Cuban Government when ratifying the protocol were communicated to the governments concerned by a circular letter from the League of Nations, dated January 22, 1931. as follows: I have the honour to inform you that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba has forwarded to me the instrument of ratification by His Excellency the President of the Republic of the protocol concerning the revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed at Geneva, September 14, 1929. This instrument of ratification was deposited with the Secretariat of the League of Nations on January 5, 1931. Under the terms of the above-mentioned instrument, the ratification is given under reservation of the following provisions: Article 4 of the Protocol-The present Protocol shall enter into force on September 1, 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 16, 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 of the Statute of the Court which are annexed to the present Protocol. The new text of Article 23 of the Statute-The Court shall remain permanently in session except during the judicial vacations, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court. Members of the Court whose homes are situated at more than five days' normal journey from The Hague shall be entitled, apart from the judicial vacations, to six months' leave every three years, not including the time spent in travelling. Members of the Court shall be bound, unless they are on regular leave or prevented from attending by illness or other serious reason duly explained to the President. to hold themselves permanently at the disposal of the Court. In accordance with the resolution adopted by the Council of the League of Nations on June 17, 1927,2 I have the honour to call your attention to these reservations and to ask you to be good enough to inform me whether your Government can accept them. Your reply will be communicated to the Government of the Republic of Cuba and to the other governments concerned. I beg also to communicate to you herewith a copy of the letter forwarding the instrument of ratification of the protocol, in which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba further informs me that his Government considers that the protocol will not affect the position of judges already elected. [Enclosure] SIR, HAVANA, December 4, 1930. I have the honour to forward to you, for registration and deposit with the Secretariat, the instrument of ratification of the protocol concerning the revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed at Geneva on September 14, 1929, and the annex to the protocol, approved by the Cuban Senate and ratified by the President of the Republic, with the reservations mentioned in the instrument of ratification. I have, at the same time, the honour to inform you that the Cuban Government consider that the protocol will not affect the position of judges already elected, and to request you to take note thereof. FIRST GENERAL CONFERENCE FOR THE LIMITATION AND REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS On February 17, 1931, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations addressed the following letter to the Secretary of State: 'League of Nations Official Journal, 8th Year, No. 7, July, 1927, p. 800; also document C. 357. M. 130. 1927. V. At its meeting on January 24th, during the examination of the draft convention and the final report of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, the Council of the League of Nations adopted a resolution including inter alia the following passage: The Council 7. Instructs the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Rapporteur, to undertake between now and the May session the initial work for the technical preparation of the Conference, particularly as regards the following questions mentioned in the report adopted on January 20th; a) particulars to be obtained from the different Governments with regard to the position of their armaments and all data technical or otherwise which might help to inform the Conference and to justify such concrete proposals as the Governments may lay before it in conformity with the wish expressed in paragraph 303 of the Preparatory Commission's report; In transmitting to you the Council's decision I have the honour, after having consulted the Rapporteur, to ask you to be good enough to forward to me the particulars mentioned in this decision and all further information which it may be possible for your Government to supply to the Secretariat in order to facilitate the preliminary work provided for in the Council's resolution. As regards budgetary data I shall as soon as possible, probably in the course of next March, inform you of the progress of the work of the committee of experts on budgetary questions appointed by the Preparatory Commission to complete the articles relative to the matter contained in the draft convention, i. e., articles 10, 24, 29, 33 and 38. In order to lay before the governments which will be represented at the Conference all the necessary documentary material in good time, I should be grateful if you would be so good as to forward to me the information mentioned above as soon as possible. LONDON NAVAL TREATY OF 1930 On April 2, 1931, the Secretary of the Navy informed the Secretary of State that the U.S.S. Louisville was completed March 6, 1931. In accordance with article 10 of the London naval treaty,* 'ARTICLE 10. Within one month after the date of laying down and the date of completion respectively of each vessel of war, other than capital ships, aircraft carriers and the vessels exempt from limitation under Article 8, laid down or completed by or for them after the coming into force of the present Treaty, the High Contracting Parties shall communicate to each of the other High Contracting Parties the information detailed below: (a) the date of laying the keel and the following particulars: classification of the vessel; standard displacement in tons and metric tons; principal dimensions, namely: length at water-line, extreme beam at or below water-line; mean draft at standard displacement; calibre of the largest gun. (b) the date of completion together with the foregoing particulars relating to the vessel at that date. The information to be given in the case of capital ships and aircraft carriers is governed by the Washington Treaty. the following particulars concerning the cruiser were transmitted to the British, French, Japanese, and Italian Governments: Classification: cruiser; Standard displacement: 9,050 tons (9,195 metric tons); Extreme beam at or below water line: 66 feet, 1 inch; ARMS TRAFFIC CONVENTION FOR THE SUPERVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ARMS AND AMMUNITION AND IN IMPLEMENTS OF WAR Latvia By a despatch dated March 17, 1931, the Legation at Riga has reported that, according to the Valdibas Vestnesis, No. 57, dated March 12, 1931, the President of Latvia signed on that day the law passed by the Saeima on December 16, 1930, approving the ratification of the convention for the supervision of the international trade in arms and ammunition and in implements of war, signed at Geneva, June 17, 1925.* INTERNATIONAL LAW CONVENTION RELATING TO CONFLICT OF LAWS ON NATIONALITY Norway By a communication dated April 2, 1931, the Acting Legal Adviser of the Secretariat of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State of the deposit, on March 16, 1931, of the instrument of adherence of the King of Norway to the convention relating to the conflict of laws on nationality, signed at The Hague, April 12, 1930. In accordance with the terms of articles 25 and 26 of the convention, the adherence of Norway will become effective 90 days after the date on which a procès verbal shall have been drawn up by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, stating that ratifications or adherences of 10 members of the League or nonmember states have been deposited with the Secretariat. CONVENTION AND PROTOCOLS ADOPTED AT THE CONFERENCE FOR THE CODIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, THE HAGUE, 1930 The status of signatures up to December 31, 1930, of the convention and the three protocols adopted at the Conference for the Codification 'See Bulletin No. 18, March, 1931, p. 21. 56921-31- -2 |