New Britain herald., 1925-04-01
REPUBLICS PLAN S0LID|FIED PACT
30 Treaty Convention Drafts Affecting Southern Countries

Washington, April 1.--Publicatlon today of series of thirty draft con- ventlons proposed for discussion at Rio De Janeiro this year by the jurists commissioner by the fifth | Pan-Ameriean conference to begin codiflcation of the, American inter | national law revealed vast, tenta- tive project for reknitting American republics into a cohesive community , of sovereign states pledged to soli- darity of policy and action aimed l chiefly at outlawing wars of con- quest among themselves.
 Included in the project Is one proposed pact banning any grant of territory by the contracting parties to non-American states. It forbids l also even temporary occupation. of 1 such territory by any nation with l the project of exercising sovereign ty, regardless of the will of the re- public whose territory was affected.
 Tn case of violation of the pro- visions of the preceding articles by | one or more nations: or, in general, l in case of menace, ofense or acts of l violence, individual of collective, ] committed by those nations with re- spect to an American republic, the continental solidarity will be af- fected thereby, and any American l republic may refer the question to | the Pan-American union in order to | bring about. an exchange of views | on the subject" declares the final | clause of the draft convention on this subject.
 Among other provisions designed | to prevent war between the con | 'tracting parties are conventions to 1 establish new and far-reaching ma chinery for conciliation of disputes and plans for Pan-American court of international justice. Both plans are taken, with necessary modif- cations. from the original concilia-. ton and world court projects launched at The Hague, and in the separate convention suggesting a preamble" and a bill of funda- mental rights for the American re- publics, occurs this explanation of the purposes aimed at:
 "The American republics are more interested in regulations con- corning the peaceful relations and neutrality than in those concerning war, in the hope that the latter is happily and forever banished from the American continent"
 The preliminary declaration also affirm the reliance of the American republics upon the general princi- ples of international law but assert reservations of the right to reject or protest against rules in force in Europe which may contradict Amer ican independence and sovereignty.
 "The American republics declare" this proposed convention continues, that matters pertaining especially | to America should be regulated in our continent in conformity with the principles of universal international l law, if that be possible, or by en- larging and developing those prin- cipes or creating new ones adapted to the special conditions existing on this continent"
 The existence of the special body of law described is declared to be due to geographical. economic and political conditions of the Ame- rican continent" and also to solida- rity existing between the American republics. So understood. it is added, international law which it is now proposed to codify does not tend toward "separation of the re- publics of this hemisphere from the world concert"
 The draft conventions which fol- ow sweep the whole gamut or ln- relations between the re- public. They cover commerce and by land, water or air 1eal with difficult questions or dlp- omatic recognition of the new na- ions and government under a detl- ,ite code of rules; lay the ground york for regularized exchange oe- tween the states of educational pup .ications and educators; propose a unified system of dealing with ex- tradition, and point out that com D,etion of the qualification Of Ame- s;con international law. on which a ,tart is to be made, is a progressive work to be followed up year at'er