WAR AND LAW.
INTERNATIONAL SUBSTITUTION HOPES OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, March 2. On the eve of the retirement of the Secretary of State, Mr. €. E. Hughes, the chairman of the governing board of the Pan-American Union submitted to him 31 projects which had been drawn up by the American Institute of International Law for codification in international law as it affects this hemisphere. The projects are- to form the Ibasis of the discussions at the forthcoming International Congress of Jurists to be held at Rio de Janeiro.
Mr. Hughes described the projects as embracing a declaration of the rights and duties of nations, statements as to the fundamental basis of international law and of the fundamental rights of the America Republics, and the formulation of rules with respect to jurisdiction, international rights and duties, and the pacific -settlement of international disputes.
"Thanks to American initiative," said Mr. Hughes, "we are on the threshold of accomplishments in the most important endeavour of the human race to lift itself out of the savagery of strife into the domain of law."—(Router.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 5
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