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The probabilities are. however. that
he will be homeward bound on Jan
uary II. His quarters on the Texas
will be adequate. Adm. Wiley VIII
turn over to the chief executive or the
admiral's quarters. including spacious
rooms and broad decks cut off from
the rest of the ship.
Press reports from some of the
Latin American countries have indi'
Gated that efforts would I've made at
the coming Pan.AmeriCan Congress to
lnterjcct political questions to far
greater extent than ever before. In
the past the Pan-Amcrican Congresses
have dealt largely with economic and
| social questions 1t has been sug-
gcsted In some quarters that attempts
will he made to bring about the for
nation of an American League oil Ma.
| tions with the pan.Amcrican Union
as the basis of departure for such Il
step. Another report has been that
efforts will be made to take the head
quarters of the Pan.American Union
| from Washington and place 1t In a
Latin American capital, because of
| the dissatisfaction in some of the
| Latin American countries with the
| ment.
The United States would look
askance at the organization of Pan
American League Of Nations, politi-
| cal in character. 1t would regard, of
course, any attempt to take the head.
quarters of the Pan-American Union
from Washington as unfriendly. The
agenda of the coming congress has
already been adopted. 1t includes "a
plan to place the Pan-American
Union on "A permanent basis by con
| GLIDING n treaty or convention, defin-
ing it's scope and activities. The Pan
| American Union owe it's existence
today merely to n resolution readopted
at each succeeding conference. The
| agenda includes further matters of
| inter. American juridicial nature. prob
lens of communications: intellectual
cooperation. economic problems. So
cial problems and reports on treaties,
| conventions and resolutions. The
time of the conference will be given
largely to consideration Of the action
and results of various Pan-American
commissions created by the fifth con
| ference which met at Santiago. Chile.
in 1923. The report drafted by the
commission of iurists tending to the
coditication of international law and
uniformity in civil. commercial pro
cedural and other branches OF private
law Is To be considered.
The report OF this last commission
NAV bring before the Pan-American
| Congress a number of political sub
iects Delegates to the commission
presented these political propositions.
and although they are not emooa'eu
In the projects submitted by the com
mission to the Congress. they may ne
laid before that body. For example.
from the Dominican Republic ana
from Mexico. the following proposition
was submitted:
mo state may in the future, directly
or indirectly. nor by reason or any
native. occupy even temporarily any
portion of the territory OF another state.
THE consent given TO the occupying
state by the state occupied VIII hot
le-i,imatize the occupation ana the
occ,,pant will be responsible Tor all
occurrences resulting from the occh-
nation. not only with respect 10 the
state occupied hut the third parties
| as we'll" IL this proposition were
adopted IL would put an end to Amer.
| lean intervention in Nicaragua. ha't'
! and Santo Domingo. 1t would prohioi'
also any more Vera Cruz incidents;
Several propositions along similar
lines were submitted by other dele
gates to the commission Of jurists.
| one submitted by Haiti was: ANY
action carried out by a state. whether
| by means of diplomatic pressure or
| by armed force. In order to force Its
| will upon that of another state. con
stitutes Intervention. From the
Argentine Republic came the follow
| ing: "A state may not intervene in
| internal nor In the external affairs OF
another state" The delegates from
! Paraguay TO the commission Of turists
proposed the following: Intervention
| or any act of n state within the terri
tory of another state without previ
| Gus declaration of war. with the intent
to decide by force. material pressure
or moral coercion. internal or external
questions OF the ether state. will be
considered AZ violation OF interna
tionai law"
The commission Of iurists under.
stood with regard TO these PROPOSE
| tons that some of them did not have
that degree OF maturity necessary for
incorporation IN the codifiCailon, and
others being drafted In the terms In
which they were, might he considered
as manifestations of n means Of oh
:, tanning the commissions views re
gardlng pending American political
questions. For this reason the com
mission decided to transmit and Ia
submit some Of them for the con
sideration OF the Sixth international
Conference In Havana"
The commission did. however. In
clude as article IS OF the Fundamental
basis Of international law governing
Tn" American Republics the following
"Sta,es directly injured by violation
| OF international law may address
| themselves to the Pan-Amerlcan Tn
ion in order that II may bring about
an exchange OF views on the matter. .
The code Of international law which
will he submitted bv The commission