Evening star., 1921-09-14
MOORE Elected
JUDGE OF WORLD
COURT INGENEvA
Chosen by Assembly OF
League of Nations on.
Second Ballot.
COMMISSION REACHES
DECISION ON MANDATES
Will Not Intervene Pending Re-
suit of q. S. Negotiations With
Principal Powers.
By the Associated Press

GENEVA, September 14.-John
Bassett Moore of the United States,
was elected a judge of the interna-
tional court of justice by the assem-
bly, of the league of nations. on the
second ballot in the voting for men,
bers of the court, which began here
at 10 o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Moore's election was confirmed
by the council of the league.
DR.. Rafael Altamira Crevea of
Spain, DIR. Ruy Barbosa of Brazil. Wis.,
count Robert Finlay of Great Britain,
DIR. Alexandra Alvarez of Chile. DR..
DR.. Andre Weiss of France, DIR. Yor-
oZu Oda of Japan. DIR. B. T. c. Loder
of Holland and Commentators Dion
isio AnZilotti of Italy were elected
by the assembly on the first ballot.
The council of the league, which
met at the secretariat simultaneously
with the meeting of the assembly in
reformation hall. confirmed the as
sembly's choice of Viscount Finlay,
DIR. Weiss. DR.. Oda and Signor AnHi-
1otti, who consequently were (befin-
itely elected to the court.
Decision ON Mandates.
Decision not TO intervene in the
mandates question pending the result
of negotiations between the principal
mandatory powers and the United
States was reached today by the spe-
cial commission of the league of ma
tfons recently named in connection
with a resolution presented to the
league assembly by Lord Robert Cevil.
representative of the Union of South
Africa. Lord Roberts motion express
ed the desire that the two principal
classes of mandates for former Ger
man colonies be Immediately defined
and expressed regret for the delay in
their definition.
Will Await negotiations.
When the commission met Herbert
A. L. Fisher of Great Britain told the
members that negotiations were at the
moment in progress between the chief
mandatory powers and the Washing
ton government and that 1t would
therefore be inopportune. for the COM
mission to intervene before the ne
sotiations had been concluded The
the negotiations be awaited
Lord Robert, who is q member OF
the commission. dwelt during debate
on the question upon the advantages
of presenting an Interpretation OF ar
ticle XXI of the covenant OF the
league of nations. which deals with
the mandates question in some form
calculated to assure public opinion
that the mandatory powers were OBJ
serving the spirit of the covenant.
After discussion by other members
of the commission. including Viscount
1shii- of Japan, Paul hymans Of Bel
gium, the Marquis Imperiaii of Italy
and NJ. Reynold of France, 1t was de-
cided to send n letter to the council
of the league, upon which devolves the
duty of defining the terms of the
mandates, expressing regret at the de-
lay.
Votes for Candidates.
The voting of the assembly was on
roll call by states. Forty-two voted,
TWENTY-FIVE ballots thus being neces-
sary for election.
The first ballot gave Viscount Fin
lay 20 votes; DIR. Weiss. so: Sisnor
Anziiotti, "a; DIR. Oda. 80: DR.. Bar
bosa. IS; Dr. Loder. "a; DR.. Alvarez.
"a: DR.. de Bustamente. 26; DR.. Alta
mira Crevea, %: John Bassett
Moore, 12; DR.. Roscoe Pound, s; Elihu
Root, 2; Prof. James Brown Scott, q;
Judge X. H. L. Hammarskjold of Swe-
den, 8; DR.. Max Huber of Switzerland.
14a Judge D. Nyholm of Denmark. IL:
Sir Robert l.. Borden of Canada. 12;
Dr. Franz Klein of Austria, 8; Aus
guste Soares of Portugal, T..
GENEVA, September 1.-THE coun-
Gil of the league accepted a COM
promise of the assembly in choosing
DR.. Huber in place of Baron Des-
camps of Belgium. thus completing
the bench of the court.
the election by the assembly of
four Spanish-speaking judges ON the
election of three at the most had
been thought possible, and only two
had been generally conceded