Evening star., 1937-09-12

Miss Whiteman Technical Adviser
To South American Conference.
Having arrived inside her Office
there was no escape, and Miss White
man was reminded that young women
still in their sos do not write every
day a law book which well-known
commentators have pronounced
monumental contribution" TO a
branch of international law which is
the subject of constant controversy.
Nor are they selected to go as tech
nical advisers to the South American
Peace Conference in the encourage
of the President of the United States;
or as a research assistant in the Amer
ican delegation at The Hague confer
enoe for the codification of interna-
tional law. Those are duties usually
allotted to men or older persons.
Law Is Her Hobby. but She Likes
People and the Land.
II must be understood, however,
that Miss Whiteman has had long
preparation and much experience in
the several duties which she has been
called upon TO fill. Since 1880 she
has been assistant in the office Of the
legal adviser in the Department of
State. Previously she was in the Latin
American Research Association. Laura
S. Rockefeller Foundation; she held
the Carnegie Fellowship honorary
in international law at Yale Univer-
sitv and was research assistant at
Columbia University.
She is very fond of horses and
riding-she was reared on big wheat
and corn farm out in Northwestern
Ohio, but she says if she has hobby,
It is law, and then more law. She is
O member of the Ohio bar and the
American Society of international
Law. She says she is intensely inter-
ested in people and in the land-the
good earth-and as an evidence of the
latter when in Buenos Aires last Win
ter with the peace delegation at every
opportunity she went about among the
natives TO see how they lived and
what they did and their attitude on
different subjects. On her return to
the United States she travelled through
Argentina so that she could see the
wheat fields or wheat-growing eoun-
try and the vineyards. Then she mo-
tored over part of the Andes and
saw some of the glories of the Pacific
Ocean, and so home by way of the
Panama Canal.
State Department Bought 1000
Copies of Law Book.
So far only the first two volumes of
Miss Whiteman's book, Damages In
International Law" have been pub
slshed, but it is understood that the
manuscript for the third volume is
ready for the press. The book was
published by the Government Print
ing Office. and sells for Sl50 a volume
which covers the expense of the paper
and binding. The Department of
State must have thought highly Of the
book, for it bought ] 900 copies and
distributed them among the American
embassies, legations and consulates
abroad. Miss Whiteman spent 10
years writing her book. typing the
first draft herself, later she EMPLOYED
an unemployed w. P. A. tvpist who
assisted her. While much of her re-
search work was done in the archives
Of the State Department. she was not
at the time employed there. In writ
ang the present volumes it has been
her Cherished hope that they will helm
IN solving international peace bv ar
bluation, the results Of which would
be way to END war. She said. though
sne was not wildly excited about the
outcome.
Miss Whiteman'S Book Reviewed
In Foreign Service Journal.
Mr.. joseph Richardson Baker. who
sS assistant to the legal adviser of the
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