Evening star., 1925-05-03
COOPERATION PLEA
. GIVEN TO KELLOGG
League Non-Partisan Body
Urges U. S. Take Part
in World Affairs.

: Secretary of State kellogg yester-
day received from representatives of
the League of Nations Non-Partisan
Association group of recommenda-
: tlons for consideration by the admin
ftstration in connection with the
t program of the association for the
coming year. The outstanding recon-
mendations brought to Mr.. kellogg's
attention We're: American adherence
to the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice, registration of United
States treaties with the secretariat
of the League of Nations. permanent
membership on certain league COM
mittees, American ratification of draft
treaties vital to this country and
participation in the efforts to outlaw
war.
Presented in Address.
The recommendation were present
ed to Mr.. Kellogg in an address by
Manley O. Hudson, professor of inter
national law at Harvard. The delega-
tiOn visited Washington following an
exchange of correspondence between
the Secretary of State and Charles {.
Bauer. executive director of the
League of Nations Non-Partisan As
Sociation, who requested an audience
in order that the administration be
acquainted with the broad scope of
the associations program.
With Prof. Hudson were the fol
lowing: Charles II. Strong, secretary
of the Bar Association of New York
City and acting president of the coun-
Gil of the association during Mr.. Wick
ersham's absence; William F. Nc
Dowell, bishop of the Methodist Epis-
Copal Church, Washington, D. c.;
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen; Mrs. Kate
Trenholm Abrams; Mrs. Philip North
Moore, president of the National
Council of Women; Theodore Mar
burg, former Minister to Belgium:
Mrs. Frank Day Tuttle. chairman Of
the Greater New York branch, League
of Nations Non Partisan Association;
Everett Colby, chairman of the eXecu-
tive committee of the association; Mr.
Bauer and William r. Hale of the
Chicago Council of Foreign Relations.
Aims of Group.
After conveying the associa tons
greetings to Mr.. Kellogg upon his as
sumption of office, Prof Hudson eX-
planned that the non-partiSan associa-~
tion Is organized for the purpose
of an independent, non-partiSan cult
walton of such a public opinion as will
induce the present administration, or
the next one, to enter the League of
Nations on such terms as to such
administration may seem wise, pro
vided only that they be consistent
with our Constitution and consonant
with the dignity and honor. the moral
responsibility and power of our Re
public
He declared that the association will
continue its work until it's end has
been realized, in the belief that it is
inevitable that the United States will
eventually find way of taking her
place in the organized world, organ
ized for the maintenance of peace and
for the ordering of the common life
of the peoples of the world"
Prof. Hudson welcomed the meas
ures which Presidents Harding and
Coolidge have taken to cooperate
with other nations through the
machinery of the League of Nations.
1t was to urge extension of American
cooperation for meeting specific prob
lens created by our contacts with
other nations that Prof. Hudson dwelt
in detail on the program of activity
which has been drawn up by the
Non Partisan Association.
In his plea for American adherence
to the permanent court of interna-
tiona1 justice, Prof. Hudson said:
'In time, its work should rejuvenate
our existing international law. and
this association deems it inevitable
that in line with a policy which has
been pursued by our Government for
q generation the United States will
give its support to maintaining this
established court.
Urges Treaty Ratification.
Protection against secret treaties
was one of the points made by Prof.
Hudson in urging that the United
States communicate all American
treaties to the secretary general of the
League of Nations for registration.
He pointed out that SIS members of
the league, together with Germany
and Ecuador, non-memberS, now regis
ter their treaties, and continued:
"A treaty made by the United States
with any one of these 81 states, will
now be registered and published in
the treaty series. The $50 treaties
which have been registered and pub
lished during the past 5 years in
clude many to which the United States
Is a party. We can see no reason
why all American treaties should not
be registered, including those which
are made with states like Mexico and
Turkey, which do not register now.
This would not require any legislation
by Congress. 1t would have the great
advantage of causing them to be pub
lished in the treaty series, which Is
the only general compendium of the
worlds treaty law and the 81 volumes
of which are now in common use
among lawyers throughout the world.
Recommends Committees.
Regular and permanent membership
on the following permanent commit
tees of the League of Nations was
recommended in the memorial present
ed by Prof. Hudson: Economic and
financial committee, permanent man.
dates commission, mixed commission
on reduction of armaments; advisory
committee on traffic in opium and
= other dangerous drugs, and advisory
committee on traffic in women and
children.
Many of these commissions are
dealing with questions of great i'm
portance, and the United States should
be kept informed of their work and
should participate in it to the extent
that Is possible at the time said
Prof. Hudson. 'Suct participation
will not bind the UNI Nates and
does not seem to call .or legislation
by Congress-" he added.
Two Americans are now members
of the permanent health committee
Prof. Hudson pointed out. The United
States has participated in the work
of the opium committee and the COM
niittee on traffic in women and chill
dren, but the United States is not rep
resented in any way in the important
work of the Permanent Mandates
Commission, vital to the protection of
American interests, nor in the work
of the economic and financial commit
tee, which has been of great signifi-
canoe to American business men and
American trade