New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-15
John e. Moore
Elected Judge of
Leagues Court
Feeling Against Selecting an
American Forces DIR. koo.
Chinese Delegate, TO Ask
Support for New Yorker
Ten Others Are Chosen
Disposition of Question as
to Mandates L. Put Over
Pending Action by U. S.
By Wilbur Forrest
Special Gable to The Tribune

Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
GENEVA, Sept. 14.-The League of
Nations to-day assured American par
ticipation in at least one of its activi-
ties by the election of John Bassett
Moore to be one of the eleven Judges
Of the Leagues International Court
of Justice, which will hold its first
sitting soon at The Hague.
The other members of the court are
Niscount Robert Finlay, OF Great
Britain; DR.. Yorogu Oda, of Japan: DR..
Andre Weiss. of France; Common
datore Dionisio Anzilotti, OF Italy: DR..
Ruy Barbosa, of Brazil; Dr.. B. T. c..
Loder, of Holland; DR. Antonio S. de
Bustamente, of Cuba; Judge Didrik
Nyholm, of Denmark; DR.. Max Huber.
OF Switzerland, and DR.. Rafael Alta
mira Crevea. of Spain.
While the choice of DR.. Moore was
easily established ir the first ballot bv
the council OF the league, which is the
body controlled by the larger nations
and which voted separately from the
assembly, the latter body, in which are
represented forty-two nations, large
and small, each with eleven choices.
failed to give the American the re-
CURED majority of twenty-one votes in
inc nISt DallOt. for little while it
appeared that American representation
IN the highest international curt, which
mas been called the soul of the
league would substantially be ignored.
BY Bare Majority
When the larger powers, however.
firmly established the election of their
representatives. on the first ballot, they
threw their strength toward the United
States, and DR.. Moore gained nine
votes, which elected him by large
majority.
As has been pointed out already in
Tribune dispatches, the time is past
when the majority of the members of
the league are willing to turn the other
cheek to the United States. and they no
longer support America. The great ma
1orlty Of the delegates voting in to-
days election came from the smaller
nations, and they are following the
trend Of the new movement here to
Ignore the United States in league
affairs.
Of 462 possible choices voiced by
the Assembly on the first ballot to-
day the American candidates received
but 22-Moore, -; Roscoe Pound, 6
Professor James Brown Scott, 2, and
Ellhu Root, 2. The ballots for Mr..
several days ago he declined to be
considered for an international Judge
ship.
Helped by DIR. koo
On the second ballot DR.. Moore
gained the support of the larger ma
tlons, but even then he fell one vote
short of the entire American support
or the initial ballot. Mr.. Moore's cleo
tlon was due partly to active campaign
ing by DR.. Wellington Koo, head OF
the Chinese delegation. DR.. Koo is a
graduate Of Columbia University and
an intimate friend of the New Yorker.
Dr. Koo solicited support for DR..
Moore wherever he possibly could out
side the larger nations delegations,
because he was assured that these
naturally would support the American
because they were more kindly dis
posed toward the United States in view
OF their Intimate association through