CONTENTS Page 1 334 ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT Bilateral treaties of arbitration and conciliation . . . Resolution of the Seventh International Conference of American States concerning adherence to and ratification of peace instru- ments . . . Resolution of the Seventh International Conference of American States concerning peace in the Chaco . . . Treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between American states General convention of inter-American conciliation . . Additional protocol of the general convention of inter-American General treaty of inter-American arbitration London naval treaty of 1930 . . Resolution approved by the Seventh International Conference of American States on methods of codification of international law. Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to inter- national aerial transportation. . . International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts. Resolution of the Seventh International Conference of American States relating to economic, commercial, and tariff policy. . . . Resolution of the Seventh International Conference of American States relating to multilateral commercial treaties and the International Monetary and Economic Conference. List of treaties and agreements containing the most-favored-nation International Conference for the Revision of the Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property signed at The Hague November Arrangement concerning the international registration of trade marks. Convention limiting the hours of work in industrial undertakings to eight in the day and forty-eight in the week-Convention con- cerning unemployment-Convention concerning the employ- ment of women before and after childbirth-Convention con- cerning the employment of women during the night-Convention fixing the minimum age for admission of children to industrial Convention on the teaching of history. . Conference for the Preservation of Flora and Fauna in Africa. PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION The Netherlands-Venezuela The American Minister to the Netherlands reported in a despatch dated December 20, 1933, that the instruments of ratification of the treaty of arbitration, judicial settlement, and conciliation, signed April 5, 1933, between the Netherlands and Venezuela, were exchanged at The Hague on December 19, 1933. The treaty became effective on that date.1 Portugal-Sweden The American Legation at Lisbon transmitted to the Department of State with a despatch dated January 9, 1934, a copy of the Diario do Governo of January 8, 1934, series I, no. 6, which contains the text of the convention of conciliation, judicial settlement, and arbitration between Portugal and Sweden, signed December 6, 1932, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Lisbon December 18, 1933. The treaty entered into effect on the exchange of ratifications. United States-Estonia The President has appointed the Honorable Leland Harrison as American national member of the Commission of Inquiry provided for by the treaty of conciliation between the United States and Estonia, signed August 27, 1929. Mr. Harrison, former Assistant Secretary of State, succeeds the Honorable John Van Antwerp MacMurray who recently resigned from the Commission. The complete personnel of the Commission was published on page 1 of Bulletin No. 17, February 1931. Turkey-Yugoslavia The American Minister to Yugoslavia, by a despatch dated December 2, 1933, informed the Secretary of State that a treaty of friend ship, nonaggression, judicial settlement, arbitration, and conciliation between Turkey and Yugoslavia was signed November 27, 1933. This treaty is similar to the treaty of friendship, nonaggression, arbitration, and conciliation between Turkey and Rumania signed October 17, 1933, the text of which is printed in Bulletin No. 50,. November 1933, pages 18-22. RESOLUTION OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES CONCERNING ADHERENCE TO AND RATIFICATION OF PEACE INSTRUMENTS 2 On December 16, 1933, the following resolution concerning adherence to and ratification of peace instruments was approved by the Seventh International Conference of American States: "The Seventh International Conference of American States: "Whereas, The organization of peace demands the sanctioning of international treaties, conventions, pacts and agreements that may insure the reign of peace in the relations between American countries and with all the nations of the world, the progress of law and of international justice being thus furthered in a definite manner, and the use of force and violence banished from their mutual intercourse; "Whereas, There exist a number of peace instruments that would be an ample and sufficient guarantee of the high purposes asserted, viz.: the Treaty for avoiding and preventing conflicts, concluded in Santiago, Chile in 1923, and known as the Gondra Treaty'; the Kellogg-Briand Treaty, signed in Paris in 1928; the Conciliation Convention, signed in Washington in 1929; and the Inter-American Arbitration Treaty of the same year, as well as the Anti-War Treaty, of Argentine initiative, signed in Rio de Janeiro, in 1933; "Whereas, Although these conventions, pacts and agreements have been signed and even ratified by a certain number of States, there still remain some countries that have not signed or ratified them, impairing thereby the effectiveness of these great instruments of peace, which, if coordinated and converted into obligations enforced in every country of the American Continent, would suffice to prevent the crime of war and the disastrous consequences of every kind which it entails for the present and future of all nationalities; "Whereas, the Anti-War Treaty, of Argentine initiative, is intended, as stated in its principles, to coordinate and make effective these various peace instruments that may definitely establish international peace without revoking any of the existing instruments, this being one of its characteristics and one of the superior aims with which it is inspired; "Resolves: "1. To invite the countries represented at this Conference which have not yet adhered to such peace instruments, to do so; to that end they shall present the respective notifications to the General 2 See also pp. 3, 4, 14, and 15. |