HUMANITARIAN ASYLUM CONVENTION ON POLITICAL ASYLUM The Seventh International Conference of American States adopted on December 26, 1933, a convention on political asylum. The delegates of the United States were not instructed to sign this convention.1 EXTRADITION CONVENTION ON EXTRADITION On December 26, 1933, the Seventh International Conference of American States adopted a convention on extradition. The delegates of the United States were instructed to sign this convention with reservations.1 NATIONALITY CONVENTION ON THE NATIONALITY OF WOMEN On December 26, 1933, the Seventh International Conference of American States adopted a convention on the nationality of women. The text of this convention is printed in the section of this Bulletin headed "Texts of Treaties and Agreements." The delegates of the United States were instructed to sign this convention with reservations.1 CONVENTION ON NATIONALITY The Seventh International Conference of American States adopted on December 26, 1933, a convention on nationality the text of which is printed in the section of this Bulletin headed "Texts of Treaties and Agreements." The delegates of the United States were not instructed to sign this convention.1 REFUGEES CONVENTION RELATING TO THE INTERNATIONAL STATUS OF REFUGEES The Inter-Governmental Conference for Refugees, convened by the League of Nations, met at Geneva October 26-28, 1933, and adopted on October 28 a convention relating to the international status of refugees. The convention will remain open for signature until April 15, 1934, after which date it may be acceded to by any member of the League of Nations or any nonmember state to which the Council of the League shall transmit a copy of the convention for that purpose. The convention is applicable to Russian, Armenian, and assimilated refugees as defined by the arrangements of May 12, 1926,2 and June 30, 1928.3 The objects of the convention are to insure to refugees the enjoyment of civil rights, free and ready access to the courts, security and stability as regards establishment and work, facilities in the exercise of the professions, of industry, and of commerce, and in regard to the movement of persons, and admission to schools and universities. The final act of the conference was signed by Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Rumania, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia. See League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 89, p. 47. 3 See ibid., p. 63. ECONOMIC AVIATION CONVENTION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AERIAL TRANSPORTATION 1 Germany The American Ambassador to Germany informed the Secretary of State by a despatch dated December 20, 1933, that the announcement of the ratification by Germany of the convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international aerial transportation, signed at Warsaw October 12, 1929, was published in part II of the Reichsgesetzblatt, no. 29, of December 19. 1933. It was stated that the convention would become effective for Germany on December 29, 1933, in accordance with the terms of articles. 37 and 38 thereof. INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OF AERIAL LEGAL EXPERTS The following experts have been appointed as the American members of the Comité International Technique D'Experts Juridiques Aériens (International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts), frequently referred to by the initials C.I.T.E.J.A.: Members of the Committee: Mr. John C. Cooper, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla. Technical assistant to the American members: Mr. Cooper is Chairman of the Committee on Aeronautical Law of the American Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the American Delegation at the Third International Conference on Private Aerial Law. Mr. Latchford is a technical assistant (legal) in the Treaty Division, Department of State, and has specialized in international aeronautical agreements. 2 Mr. Paulett is in charge of the legal work in the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce. Mr. Fagg is Managing Director of the Air Law Institute, Northwestern University and an official of the United States Association of State Aviation officials. Mr. Ide is Technical Assistant in Europe for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and has attended a number of international aeronautical conferences. He served as a delegate to the Third International Conference on Private Aerial Law. COMMERCE RESOLUTION OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES RELATING TO ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL, AND TARIFF POLICY 3 The proposal of Secretary Hull, relating to economic, commercial, and tariff policy, which the delegation of the United States presented to the Seventh International Conference of American States on December 12, 1933, the text of which proposal was printed in Bulletin No. 51, December, 1933, pages 6 et seq., was approved by a resolution of the Conference on December 16, 1933. RESOLUTION OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES RELATING TO MULTILATERAL COMMERCIAL TREATIES AND THE MOST-FAVORED-NATION CLAUSE 3 The proposal relating to economic, commercial, and tariff policy, approved by the Seventh International Conference of American States on December 16, 1933, contains the following paragraph: "With a view to encouraging the development of unified and comprehensive multilateral treaties as a vitally important instrument of trade liberalization, the advantages of which treaties ought not to be open to countries which refuse to confer similar advantages, the subscribing governments declare, and call upon all countries to declare, that they will not invoke their right to demand, under the most-favored-nation clause contained in bilateral treaties to which they may be parties, any benefits of multilateral treaties which have as their general purpose the liberalization of international economic relations and which are open to the accession of all countries, provided that such renunciation shall not operate in so far as the country entitled to most-favored-nation treatment in fact reciprocally accords the benefits which it seeks." * See p. 14. With a view to implementing this portion of the proposal, the delegation of the United States introduced a draft general agreement, which was the subject of the following resolution adopted by the Conference on December 24, 1933: "The Seventh International Conference of American States, After deliberating on the proposition of the United States of America relative to multilateral Treaties, which proposition it will deposit with the office of the Pan American Union, and adherence thereto shall be open to all countries, "Recommends: "To the Governments convened in this Conference the study of multilateral commercial treaties and of the possibility of adopting a universal agreement, or at least one which shall be accepted by the nations of greatest economic power. This agreement shall include stipulations by which the States shall be obliged not to invoke the unconditional most-favored-nation clause in bilateral treaties without assuming the corresponding obligations. "The proposition of the Delegation of the United States, to which the recommendation for study refers, is as follows: "The Governments of the Republics convened at the Seventh International Conference of American States, desirous of encouraging the development of economic relations among the peoples of the world by means of multilateral conventions, the benefits of which ought not to inure to countries which refuse to assume their obligations: and desirous also, while reaffirming as a fundamental doctrine the policy of equality of treatment, to develop such policy in a manner harmonious with the development of general economic rapprochement in which every country shall do its part; have decided to enter into an agreement for those purposes, as set forth in the following articles: "ARTICLE 1 "The High Contracting Parties, with respect to their relations with one another, will not, except as provided in Article 2 hereof, invoke the obligations of the most-favored-nation clause for the purpose of obtaining advantages enjoyed by the parties to multilateral economic conventions of general applicability, which include a trade area of substantial size, have as their objective the liberalization and promotion of international trade or other international economic intercourse, and are open to adoption by all countries. "ARTICLE 2 "Notwithstanding the stipulations of Article 1, the High Contracting Parties may demand the fulfillment of the most-favorednation clause in so far as each respectively accords in fact the benefits required by the economic agreement the advantage of which it claims. |