Evening star., 1927-08-07

Tor the COQlI1cdLlOH Oh lIlteIAld-
tiOnal law" which is considered by
many leading statesmen and interna-
tionalists as an essential condition
precedent to the establishment of
Court of International Justice, leading
members of Congress are already in
Europe, having sailed during the past
week, or will sail this week.
This is one of the most important
items on the program of the Ameri-
can group Of delegates to the twenty
fourth conference of the Interparlia-
mentary Union. to be held in the Sen
ate chamber of the Palais du Luxem-
bourg. Paris, from August 25 to Au-
gust 80.
At the international law code con-
ference the discussion will be led by
Signor di Stefano- o-Napolitan of the
Italian Senate and Prof. Walther
Schuecking, member of the Reichstag
and president of the German group of
the union.
American Principles.
The first principle of American phi
relations Is that the United States
should not enter into any permanent
foreign alliance, military or political
in character, directly or indirectly.
The second principle of American
philosophy in relation to international
relations is that international contro-
versies should be settled by judicial
decision and not by war.
judicial decision must be based upon
law, and international judicial decision
must be based upon international law.
Without code of international law,
American statesmen insist, a Court of
International Justice would be one of
/ political eXpediency and diploma tic
compromise only. Some fundamental
principles of right and justice must
be agreed upon by the nations which
can be the basis of judicial action.
There is no factor in the movement
for world peace, in the minds Of many
who have given this subject the
closest study, more important than
this project of codiication of inter-
| national law.
Under the Pan-American Union
a code of international law for the
Western Hemisphere is being worked
out and the part devoted to public
| international law is now ready for
| submission to the American countries.
| The League of Nations has a commits
sion for the codification of interna.
tional law and has chosen George w.
Wickersham a member of the COM
mission, although the United States is
not member of the League.
The last international conference at
The Hague strongly emphasized the
need for the clear statement and ex-
tension of principles of justice into
| international law. That there should
| be third Hague conference for the
codification of international law as
soon as the minds of the people of the
various countries can return to a nor.
| mai condition from the emotions of
| the late war. has twice been recon.
| mended to the House by the commit.
| tee on foreign affairs. 1t carries the
| active support of such authorities as:
David Jayne Hill. delegate pleni.
| potentiary of the United States to the
| Second Hague Conference, former AS.
sistant Secretary of State and former
| American Minister to Switzerland and
the Netherlands and former American
Ambassador to Germany.
| DIR. James Brown Scott, president
OF the Institute of International Law
ana president of the American Insti.
tute OF International Law, technical
delegate of the United States to the
Second Hague Conference and former
solicitor of the Department of State.
| CHARLES Henry Butler, Washington
lawyer, technical delegate of the
united States to the Second Hague
conference and former reporter of
the Supreme Court of the United
| States.
Chandler P. Anderson, American n
commissioner Mixed Claims Commits.
sion, United States and Germany. for.
| mer counselor of the Department of
state, American arbitrator, British.
american Claims Arbitration Commits.
| sion' and American arbitrator, Norwe.
gian arbitration.
Rear Admiral William l.. Rodgers
-. .. NJ retired; former naval adviser
" eIe american delegation to the In.
Warfare meeting at The Harue in
l922, and member of the advisory
committee to the American deIepatio1
at the Washington Conference on the
Ai1illtatlon OF Armaments, 1922.
MAJ. w. Penn Cresson. professor of
olplomatlc history and diplomacv
school of Foreign Service. Georgetown
University; former chief of the Amer.
ican military mission at the Belgian
headquarters, and diplomatic Secretary
OF the Washington Conference on the
Limitation of Armaments.
Llbbeus r. Wilfley, former ATTORNEY
e VI 'he PnlilppineS, and Judge
vi tne United States Court of China.
Arthur Deerlng Call, secretary to
the American Peace Society. which
Will soon celebrate it's centenary and
since 1919 secretary of the American
pranch of the Interparliamentary
lnterparliamentary Union
The Interparliamentary Union was
started IN Paris in 1859 on the inita.
1--WE or Sir William Randall Cramer.
d memoer OF the House of Commons.
IL is made up entirely of members of
parliaments. This year the twenty.
fourth conference of the union is TO
meet In the French Senate chamber
on invitation of the French group. of
which NJ. Fernand Merlin, Senator. is
president. M. Aristide BRAND, minister
OF foreign affairs and leader of the
French delegation to the League of
Nations, will not only receive the
members of the conference, but will
also take part in the debates.
The union met twice in the United
States; first, in 1904 at st. Louis in
connection with the Worlds Fair, and
again IN 1925 in Washington. in the
House chamber, on invitation of Presi-
dent Coolidge, with al governments
represented, the largest showing at
any conference of the union. Last
Summer there was no regular meet
ing. but the union has six study COM
missions and each commission is made
up of two members from each of the
parliaments.
The meeting in Geneva last Sum-
mer was attended by Senators Swan
son and Caraway; Representatives
Porter and Burton and other leading
members of the American Congress.
This Summer the conference in Paris
Is to be attended by Representative Roy
G. Fitzgerald, Ohio, chairman of the
committee on codification of the laws;
Representative Theodore Burton. Ohio,
president of the American delegation;
Chairman Porter of the House COM
mittee on foreign affairs: Senators
Tyson. Tennessee; Tidings, Maryland: