Evening star., 1924-05-09

special committee made up of repre-
sentatives of the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy, Japan and five
other nations to be selected by the
general committee by majority vote.
Selections would be made by the
electoral commission on the basis of
nominations by the national groups
in the Permanent Court of Arbitra-
nittee and the special committee
would vote independently, and those
having an absolute majority in both
branches shall be considered elected.
only one judge or deputy judge of
any one nationality could hold office
at a time.
Zach Judge would be elected for a
term of nine years. and the terms of
one third of them would expire every
three years The deputy judges
would have terms of six years and
would act as judges when vacancies
occurred in that grade No judge
ministrative function or take part in
decision of any case in which he pre-
viously had been interested profess
sioually. A judge or deputy judge
could be dismissed by unanimous
vote of his colleagues or impeached
by a two-thirdS vote in the general
committee.
Would Sit at the Hague.
The court would sit at The Hague e
would hold a regular session annually,
beginning June Is, and could be sum-
moned into extraordinary session at
the discretion of the president of
the court, who would be chosen by
the court itself. In case of vacancies
and absences nine judges could hold
court, and three could act as a sum-
mary court at the request of the con-
testing parties.
If the court includes Judge of
the nationality of one OF the con-
testing parties, the other contesting
party could choose from among the
deputy judges a judge of it's own
nationality. The salaries and per-
Dutch forms each. and other ex-
penses of the court would be paid
by the signatory powers
The court would be open to sigma
avail themselves of it on a basis Of
equality by treaty. The signatories
could declare if they desired in Great
ing the court that they would recog-
nize '.as compulsory ipso facto" the
Jurisdiction of the court 'fn all and
any of the class of legal disputes
concerning the Interpretation Of a
treaty, any question Of international
law, the existence of any fact which
if established would constitute a
breach of International obligation
and the nature or extent of a repara-
tion to be made for the breach Of an
international obligation"
When treaty or convention in
force provides for a reference of a
matter to a tribunal to be instituted
by the league of nations the court
could take Jurisdiction as between
the parties to such treaty or con-
venAon.
The hearings of the court would
be public unless the court, upon writ
ten request of one of the parties, de-
cided otherwise. All questions would
be decided by majority vote of the
judges present.
Decisions Final.
The decisions would have no bind
ing force except between the parties,
and in respect OF, that particular
case the judgment would be final and
without appeal. A state which con-
sidered its interest affected by a case
under consideration could be permit
ted by the court to intervene as a
third party.
A signatory power could withdraw
from the court on two years notice.
BY way of reservation, it is stated
in the resolution that the court. Would