Evening star., 1939-04-29
International Law
Society Names Hull
As President
Dr.. CorrelI Pittmon
And Hurd to Address
Delegates Tonight

Secretary of State Cordell Hull
today was named president Of the
American Society Of international
Law during the organizations 33d
annual meeting at the Carlton Hotel
Secretary Hull. who, 1t was an
nounced, had voiced his willingness
to accept the presidency, succeeds
DR.. James Brown Scott, founder OF
the society and its president since
1890. Secretary Hull will be the
fourth president of the society
others having been Elihu Root and
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Before announcing DR.. Scott e
successor. Charles G. Fenwick paid
tribute TO Dr. Scott as IAN optimist
who believes we can remake hu-
man nature" He commented on
the faith DR.. Scott has that men
can avoid war and said this faith
had contributed tremendously to
the society.
DR.. Carrel Speaks Tonight.
The report of the Nominating
Committee was one of several re-
ports at the business meeting in the
morning. Tonight the delegates
will hear addresses by DR.. Alexis
Carrel, author of Man, the I'm
known; Senator Key Pittman,
chairman Of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee, and William
Hard. newspaper correspondent, at
the annual banquet which concludes
the three-day meeting.
A proposal to codify international
criminal law was introduced at the
morning meeting by Albert Levitt,
as minority report after the regu-
lar report of the Committee on
Codification OF International Law.
Mr.. Levitt's code proposed the pro-
lection OF states and their nationals
from injuries to their existence.
persons, property and relations with
each other
He advocated establishment of q
permanent court of internationa,
criminal justice at The Hague, which
would be given the power to punish
rulers who commit internationa |
crimes as we'll as states.
Wright Submits Report.
Herbert Wright, chairman of the
Committee on State Department
Publications, reported on the appro-
priation bill for State Department
publications.
New officers elected at the morn
ing meeting included Phillip Mar
shall Brown, Charles Henry Butler,
Frederic r. Coudert. Manley o.
Hudson, Chief Justice Hughes
Charles Cheney Hyde, John Bassett
Moore, Jackson H. Ralston, Leo 8.
Rowe. Henry L. Stimson, former
Secretary of State; Charles Warren
and George Grafton Wilson, homo
rary vice presidents; William C.
Dennis, Jesse S. Reeves and Sena
tor Ebert D. Thomas of Utah, vice
presidents: Mr.. Finch, secretary, and
Lester H. Woolsey. treasurer.
Members of the Executive Council
who succeed those whose terms ex-
pired this year and who will serve
until 1912. are Clarence Berdahl
Alice M. Holden, Harold Tobin, John
P. Burlington, Allen w. Dulles, Ed
gar burlington. Malbone w. Graham
and James o. Murdock.
Mr.. Dulles. a member of the New
York bar, who addressed the dele
gates last night, asserted that the
League of Nations was DESTROYED by
its friends as well as by it's enemies
and warned that "the hopes of the
people OF the world for a collective
system should not again be deceived
by the attempt to impose such a sys-
tenn under conditions which we
should now be wise enough to recog-
nize will make failure inevitable"