Instructions To, and Report from Delegates of the United States ...: With Draft of Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - 215 pages

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Page 8 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions or policy or internal administration of any foreign state ; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.
Page 6 - Additions to be made to the convention of 1899 for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of 1864.
Page 139 - BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. January 12, 1909. — Read; convention read the first time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and, together with the message and accompanying papers, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.
Page 11 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of the...
Page 75 - If an agreement is not arrived at on this subject, each party selects a different power, and the choice of the umpire is made in concert by the powers thus selected. If, within two months...
Page 101 - ... have been received. Each contracting Power is entitled to have access to this register and to be supplied with duly certified extracts from it.
Page 142 - In the cases contemplated in the preceding paragraph the said Government shall inform them at the same time of the date on which it received the notification.
Page 147 - Power may forbid a belligerent vessel which has failed to conform to the orders and regulations made by it, or which has violated neutrality, to enter its ports or roadsteads. Article 10 The neutrality of a Power is not affected by the mere passage through its territorial waters of war-ships or prizes belonging to belligerents.
Page 5 - MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTING THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE COPYRIGHT UNION AS REVISED AND SIGNED AT ROME ON JUNE 2, 1928 FEBRUARY 19, 1934. — Convention read the first time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with the message, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate MAY 28, 1934.
Page 31 - Court for the settlement of a difference which has arisen between them, the arbitrators called upon to form the tribunal with jurisdiction to decide this difference must be chosen from the general list of members of the court. Failing the direct agreement of the parties on the composition of the arbitration tribunal, the following course shall be pursued : Each party appoints two arbitrators...

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