Evening star., 1933-04-29
HULL IS H0NORED
BY LEGAL GROUP
International Law Society
Names Secretary of State
Vice President.

Secretary of State Hull was elected
an honorary vice president Of the Amer
ican Society of International Law at
the business meeting of its twenty
seventh annual convention at the
Willard Hotel today.
James Brown Scott was reelected
president and Elihu Root honorary
president. The following were elected
members of the executive council to
serve until 1886: Edward c. Wynne of
the State Department. william I. Hull
Of Swarthnore College, Frederick D.
McKenney Of the District of Columbia,
Richard w. Flournoy Of the University
of Washington. Thomas Raeburn White
OF Pennsylvania, Fred K. Nielsen Of the
State Department and Herbert w.
Briggs of Cornell University
All other officers, active and honorary,
were reelected.
This afternoon there will be two ad-
dresses and a general discussion, and
the annual dinner will be held at the
Willard at 7:30 pm. The addresses are
Machinery for the Preservation Of
Peace" by A. H. Feller, instructor in
international law, Harvard Law School,
and Modern Tendencies in Arbitra-
ton" by Frederick S. Dunn, Creswell
lecturer on international law at Johns
Hopkins University.
Texan Discusses Aliens.
At the sessions yesterday John p.
Burlington of the Texas bar discussed
the treatment of the private property
OF aliens on land in times of peace He
showed that often the property Of aliens
Is In better case than that Of nationals.
In many instances, he said, where a
State expropriates property Of certain
class, such as mineral rights the State
Will make restitution for invasion Of the
proprietary interests of aliens, where
under the law its own nationals are not
entitled to any compensation for their
lost property rights
although there are no hard and fast
rules, he said, there is q standard for
compensation in such cases, albeit the
standard is rather vague.
e. Russell Lutz. assistant to the legal
adviser, State Department, discussed
the treatment Of private property of
aliens in times of war. Mr. Lutz pointed
out that the results of the Treaty Of
Versailles. in actual practice, have been
that Germans in allied countries whose
property was taken away by the allied
countries have received either no COM
pensation or compensation so slight as
to be unnoticeable. This, he said, was
N direct violation Of a standard Of in
ternational conduct adhered to by
civilized nations with few exceptions
since the seventeenth century
Foreign Investments Less Secure.
He said this fact made foreign in
vestments less secure, and pointed out
that the International Chamber of
Commerce is in favor of exempting
from seizure the private property Of
aliens in times of war
Former Assistant Attorney General
Charles Warren told the delegates that
the best that could be said of the
rights" of neutrals in times of war
Is that they are such as the belliger-
ents are willing to concede. He denied
the existence of any abstract right"
and said that each war should be
treated on its own basis and that neu-
trails should endeavor by negotiation to
make the best bargains possible with
the belligerents. Concessions might be
attained as practical arrangements, he
pointed out which belligerents might
never concede as rights.
Philip c. Jessup, associate professor
of international law at Columbia <Uni-
versity. also discussed neutrality in an
address, rs Neutrality Essential?"