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among the $4,000 members and
guests gathered here for the
annual convention.
Leaders of both sides of the
dispute frankly admitted today
that they had talked with vir-
tually all the 249 members of
the House of Delegates.
In a nose count of delegates,
Charles S. Rhyme, chairman of
the World Peace Through Law
Committee. said he had found
many delegates deeply i'm
pressed by Mr.. Eisenhower's
address calling for the deletion
of what he called the self
judging clause in our laws"
Mr.. Rhyme also counted on
the action of the House of Del
egates at its mid-year meeting.
At that time the question of
reappraising the bar associa-
tion's earlier stand was referred
to Mr.. Rhymes committee
rather than to the opposition
the Committee on Peace ana
Law Through the United Ma
tions.
Il can't imagine the delegates
repudiating the President of the
United States on what he said
Monday" Mr.. Rhyme said.
J. Cleo Thompson of Dallas,
chairman of the Committee on
Peace and Law Through the
United Nations, was equally
confident for the other side.
1--WE have an excellent chance
OF winning a victory" he said.
"All the people I've talked to
support our position to retain
the Connally amendment. I've
received numerous kilograms
from all over the country.
Sees World Law Inadequate
I'VE don't want to surrender
our sovereignty in any way.
There has not been a sufficient
body of law in the World Court
to know what can be expected
Of it. We feel that the rules
should be fixed before we start
the game and that there
should be some means of en-
forcing the decisions Of the In
ternational Court, which doesn't
exist now.
We've been accused of being
unpatriotic and everything else,
but I don't see 1t that way.
We're just performing our
duty"
So far, John D. Randall, out
going president of the bar asso-
citation, has not taken sides
publicly in the dispute, but he
told the House of Delegates in
his formal address yesterday,
Certainly one area that needs
our attention is the extent to
which adjudication can resolve
the problems facing the world"
He said the attorneys should
explore the extent to which
decisions on the international
scene can be made effectively
by "a court-like body" and
which can be better handled by
diplomacy.
"Can problems such as the
status of West Berlin or the
Suez Canal be disposed of
through the existing interna-
tional adjudicating machin-
ery?" he asked.
Study by Lawyers Urged
He called on the lawyers to
educate themselves in inter-
national law as we'll as the
application of that law in the
settlement of disputes so that
they can carry out their
function as leaders of thought
in their community.
"The point is," he said, that
we lawyers do shape opinion.
we have no choice. The only
choice that does exist is
whether those opinions are
shaped in the darkness of
ignorance or the light of knowl-
edge"
Renault St.-Laurent, @. c.,
of Quebec, president of the
Canadian Bar Association, also
focused his attention on the
rule Of law as applied among
nations in his address to the
Third General Assembly of the
ABA today.
The Canadian bar president
warned that if civilization is
to survive, the rule of law will
have to be applied in relations
among nations as effectively as
it is now applied in relations
among citizens within the
boundaries of civilized nations.