LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15320, 16 September 1920, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

PERMANENT COURT PROPOSED. (Received Sept. 16, 9.10 a.m.) ; , ' .■•■■'. ' LONDON, Sept; ,l4. Sir Barnes Allen. ie_>resehts New Zealad at tH. League of -Nations . Financial" Conference. . , . ,-■.---.. zAz drift scheme for the institutibnyof a" '"jpermahent court of interiiational?;.jus**\ tice * has been, published by the League of Nations. The scheme consists . of * 5$ '■ articles prepared by an international, committee of jurists. It was submitted to the Council \)f the League at ; Sah Sebastian; which decided to ask f M. Bourgeois to prepare* a report for mission to the J Council's session, at Brussels m October The Council will-. th«n take a definite decision, which will be submitted "to the first meeting of the assembly at Geneva m November. ' The jurist- on the Council ol '.'the ; .Leaguo emphasise that all the ; members; cjf the. committee- signed the report. The'Council'strongly urges ratification, declaring ,-that failure to do this would •be ,ah Atrepiarable international misfortune. Tlie scheme -pi'bvides that the judges o^f the ppurt shall be elected by the assembly lof the League independently from v a list of . candidates which -is to he prepared s from 44 hiatiorial groups of the j^rmay nent court of arbitration instituted at The Hague by ' the Convention of- . 1699 and : 1907, each group consisting of two candidates.; the court to be oomposedrof 15 members elected for nine yeara.;. ,£ concession is, however, made to national susceptibilities by ah article leaving each paity^yto "dispute the right to- have, among the judges dealing with the case ohe judge. of his own nationality <<-. The court must hold a session each' t year, i ahd the president is empowered to tall, extraordinary sessions if required. 5 On" the delicate question of the court's competence the project says that wHeii a dispute has arisen between States, aiid has been :*-f ound impossible- to settle it by diplomatic means, and no agreement has- been made to choose another jurisdiction, the party complaining i may; bring the^ case .before. .the. court. y The, Hague >i 8 proposed as the seat b^the gourt;**4Reuter. - , ' ,