WORLD COURT
AMERICAN ADHERENCE CHTJKCHES URGE HOOVER
WASHINGTON, 17th December. Consideration of President Hoover's | World Court protocol has been postponed until December, 1931, according to a Senate decision to-day. Religious leaders have handed to the President a petition from fifty-nine church bodies asking for American adherence to the Court.
On lltli December President Hoover sent the World Court Protocol to the Senate with a request for tho ratification of "provisions to free us from any entanglement in diplomacy with other nations. We cannot be summoned before tho Court, and our withdrawal is permitted at any. time without reproach or ill-will. "The movement for the establishment of such a Court originated within our country. It springs from an earnest seeking of our people for justice- in international relations, and to strengthen the foundations of peace."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 11
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134WORLD COURT Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 11
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