Evening star., 1943-05-02
Roberts Urges Consideration
OfWorId Regime Immediately
Hugh Gibson Also Pleads for Action Now
In Speech Before International Law Society

IF you want to punish Hitler" "
he said, "let's agree, if we can get
hold Of him. Let's get evidence now.
Let's apply the appropriate juris-
diction on all crimes for violating
the laws of war"
Other distinguished speakers at
the banquet last night included: DR..
A.. Loudon, Ambassador of the Meth
erlands, and Maj. Gen. E. M. Be-
thouart, head of the French Mill
tary Mission here.
French Problems Discussed.
In his first public utterance here,
Gen. Bethouart, discussing problems
OF postwar France, said his nation
would be isolated on the European
continent physically weak, al
though I believe morally stronger
than ever"
Declaring Frances postwar Sc
curity depended much on two fac
tors-industry and communications
the Fighting French representative
said German industry must not be
allowed to capture Frances fair
share of world markets while France
is recovering from her present situa-
ton Germany must not only
give back to France the industry it
has either stolen or destroyed, but
it must be deprived of the means
of developing again the heavy in
dustry necessary for rearmament." !"
Communications speeded during the
war, he predicted will link even
closer each day the democracies
bordering the Atlantic which draws
them nearer together more than it
separates them.
"This Atlantic civilization which
continues and harmoniously COM
pletes today the role which Medi-
terranean civilization alone has
played in the past will be one Of the
great factors of cooperation be-
tween the free nations in the COM
mon elaboration of better world" "
Hopes for Common Ground.
DR.. Loudon expressed the convic-
ton that there is fair chance that
the nations fighting the seourge of
all international progress, namely
aggression = can find a common
ground for their mutual and perna-
nent benefit in revision Of the
principle of sovereignty" Unless a
serious attempt be made, he warned,
to provide for enforcement" Of this
limitation of sovereign rights, the
limitation itself would be in vain.
Mitchell B. Carroll of New York,
vice chairman Of the section of In
ternational and Comparative Law of
the American Bar Association, which
joined with the Society of Inter-
national Law in its annual banquet,
outlined the efforts being made by
the ABA to report on IAN adequate
postwar judicial system of perma-
nent international courts, which will
provide for an acceptable and con-
tinuous administration of Justice"
The society reelected the follow
ing officers: President, Frederic r.
Coudert; honorary president, James
Brown Scott; honorary vice presi-
dents. Philip Marshall Brown, Man.
ley o. Hudson, Charles Evans
Hughes, Cordell Hull, Charles
Cheney Hyde, John Bassett Moore,
Jackson H. Ralston, Leo s. Rowe,
Henry L. Stimson, Charles Warren,
George Grafton Wilson; vice presi-
dents, William G. Dennis, Charles
G.. Fenwick, Senator Ebert D.
Thomas; secretary, George A. Finch;
treasurer, Lester H. Woolsey.
Eight new members of the execu-
tive council were named as follows:
Clarence v. Berdahl, James Oliver
Murdock. Fred K. Nielsen, Durward
v. Sanifer, Lawrence Preuss, Nor
man J. Padelford, Richard w.
Flournoy and Col Archibald King.