DEPOSITED BY THE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT Bilateral Treaties of Arbitration and Conciliation. Convention Concerning Peaceful Orientation of Public Instruction . Convention Concerning Facilities for Educational and Publicity International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Re- PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION United States-Brazil The President has reappointed Stephen Pierce Duggan, Ph. D., LL. D., director of the Institute of International Education, Inc., as American national member of the International Commission of Inquiry provided for by the Treaty for the Advancement of Peace between the United States and Brazil, signed July 24, 1914 (Treaty Series No. 627), for a further 5-year term. The present composition of the International Commission is as follows: American Commissioners: National: Stephen Pierce Duggan, Ph. D., LL. D., of New York Nonnational: Senator Raoul Dandurand, of Canada. Brazilian Commissioners: National: Levi Carneiro Nonnational: Max Huber, of Switzerland. Joint Commissioner: Nicolas Politis, of Greece. CONFERENCE THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES 1 The American delegation to the Eighth International Conference of American States, which will convene at Lima, Peru, on December 9, 1938, is as follows: Chairman of the delegation: The Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of State Delegates: The Honorable Alfred M. Landon, former Governor of Kansas 1 See Bulletin No. 108, September 1938, p. 281. The Honorable Emilio del Toro Cuevas, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico The Honorable Green H. Hackworth, Legal Adviser of the Department of State The Reverend John F. O'Hara, President, Notre Dame University The Honorable Charles G. Fenwick, Professor of International Law, Bryn Mawr College The Honorable Dan W. Tracy, President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers The Honorable Elise F. Musser (Mrs.) The Honorable Kathryn Lewis, Executive Assistant to the President of the United Mine Workers of America QUESTION OF THE SO-CALLED SEPARATION OF THE COVENANT FROM THE PEACE TREATIES On September 30, 1938, the Assembly of the League of Nations adopted two resolutions regarding certain amendments to the Covenant of the League. 'See Bulletin No. 109, October 1938, p. 319. 1 In pursuance of the first resolution the Secretary General communicated by two circular letters dated October 26, 1938, to members of the League and to states nonmembers named by the Council the texts of the two resolutions and a copy of the protocol embodying amendments to the preamble, articles 1, 4, and 5, and the Annex to the Covenant, which was opened for signature at Geneva on September 30, 1938. The protocol was signed by the following countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate members of the League of Nations, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, France, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, India, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, and Uruguay. The texts of the two resolutions and of the protocol are printed below: Resolution No. I Adopted by the Assembly of the League of Nations on September 30, 1938 "The Assembly, "Considering that, whatever the procedure be whereby various States have entered or may enter the League of Nations, the Covenant is a constitution common to all the Members of the League, regulating their relations with the object of developing co-operation between them and assuring them peace and security; "Considering that, from the first, the Covenant has had an independent existence which is expressed in particular: "(1) In its essential purpose, which is to establish a permanent institution; "(2) In the existence of an Assembly and Council, through the instrumentality of which League action is effected; "(3) In the procedure provided by the Covenant for admission into the League of Nations; "(4) In the power given to Members of the League to amend the Covenant in conformity with the provisions of Article 26; "Considering that Members of the League of Nations have the same rights whatever be the date and method of their entry into the League; "Desiring, after having thus indicated these essential characteristics of the Covenant, to remove certain difficulties arising out of a number of expressions employed therein, which, if they were to remain, might be considered an obstacle to the entry of other States into the League of Nations; "Noting that, in order to attain this end, certain amendments should be introduced into the Covenant according to the procedure |