¹ Vol. 30 (1936), p. 270.

² See list in Department of State, Publication No. 499. Since 1933, the date of that publication, the following conferences have been held: Seventh International Conference of American States, Montevideo, Dec. 3–26, 1933; The Central American Conference, Guatemala City, March 14-April 13, 1934; Ninth Pan American Sanitary Conference, Buenos Aires, Nov. 12–22, 1934; Pan American Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, May 26-June 19, 1935; Seventh American Scientific Congress, Mexico City, Sept. 8–17, 1935; Third Pan American Red Cross Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 15–25, 1935; Seventh Pan American Child Congress, Mexico City, Oct. 12–19, 1935; Second Assembly of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Washington, D. C., Oct. 14–19, 1935; Third Pan American Conference of National Directors of Health, Washington, D. C., April 4–15, 1936.

³ Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Special Handbook for the Use of Delegates. Prepared by the Pan American Union (1936), pp. 3–5.

⁴ Cf. Thompson, “Toward a New Pan-Americanism,” Foreign Policy Reports, Vol. XII, No. 16, Nov. 1, 1936.Google Scholar

⁵ There are other treaties not included in this plan; cf. Hudson, “The Inter-American Treaties of Pacific Settlement,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 15 (1936), p. 165.

⁶ However, a more fundamental and desirable solution would be the perfection of procedures in national courts whereby aliens could sue the state for damages in all cases from which international claims might arise; see Hyde, “A convention for the prevention of international differences arising from private claims,” Report of the Twentieth Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1914, p. 125.Google Scholar

⁷ Text in Department of State, Press Releases, Dec. 12, 1936, p. 478.

⁸ Texts in the New York Times, Dec. 14, 1936; cf. Department of State, Press Releases, Dec. 19, 1936, p. 503 ff.

⁹ Cf. Neutrality, Its History, Economics and Law, Vol. IV, Jessup, Today and Tomorrow (1936), Chap. VI.