Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
NATIONS LEAGUE
 PLANS INITIAL BUSINESS MEET
Permanent Court of interna- tional Justice to Be Named at Session in Lon don February 10-U. s. Unable to Participate Un- less Pact Ratified

i WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The second
 meeting of the council of the league o1
 ations, which in reality will be the l first actual business meeting, will be | held in London, probably February 10 1 according to adviceS received here to- Gay. At this meeting the council plans to enter upon consideration of one oi the most important subjects with which
 1t has been charged under the treaty ot peace, namely, the constitution of the permanent court of international jus tice.
 The first meeting of the council held in Paris January Is, confined itself to matters of organization necessary to meet contingencies that had arisen un- of the Saar valley boundary commis- sion, which had to be named within Is Cays after the ratification of the treaty.
 I. is learned that the launching of the permanent court of international justice has been decided upon after great hesitation because this was one of the features of the program in which the United States had taken the great est inteEest, having in fact originated the project as one of the best means of preventing wars by resort to judicial processes. It was to have been con sidered at the first meeting of the council but was postponed in order to
 
 senate to act upon the peace treaty and for this nation to be in position to participate in the organization of the court.
 The United States, it was pointed out in the councils meeting, had given this plan of settlement of international disputes it's original impetus at the first and second Hague conference, and also at the London priso court con- ference.
 The council, it is now learned, has finally decided to go ahead with the plans already made by the secretariat of the league for launching the court. While these plans are not understood to be at all detailed, it is known that council of an organizing committee of seven or eight of the most eminent jurists in the world to amplify the whole structure of the court. The choices have been made with a view of finding men not only familiar with the evolution of the league itself, but also of the different le4hl systems of the world in order to assure that the court may be acceptable and to all nations.
 May Withhold Root Appointment
 Elthu Root, former secretary of state of the United States, is known to have been selected as the American mem Der or the cOmm1SS1On, put It IS not yet certain that the council will feel free to offer him the actual appoint ment in advance of Americas ratified ton of the treaty. This subject now is under negotiation with the~viewpoint' expressed by the other nations that they very much desire to name Mir. Root, if the choice would not appear untimely in view of the treaty situa- tion in this country
 MT. Root has been recognized in Eu- rope as in the very forefront of Ameri- can jurists. Quite apart from all else that he has done in stressing the need of an international court. his instruc- tions to the American delegates to the second Hague conference in 1907 are accepted as a landmark in the history of the subject. After detailed an- alysis of the possibility of arbitration. he concluded:
 "It should be your effort to bring about in the second conference a de- selopment of The Hague tribunal into permanent tribunal composed of judges who are Judicial officers and 1othing else; who are paid adequate salaries; who have no other occupation and who will devote their entire time to he trial and decision of international ,ases by judicial methods and under | sense of Judicial reSDOusibilitv"