| Show UNION IN or resolutions PRESENTED TO conference recognizing PROGRESS BEING MADE twenty third session favors favora many matters mattera of vital importance to nation many nations are ar represented Washington tho The twenty third con ference of the union in a resolution here indorsed endorsed indor sed the efforts of the league of nations and tho the pan american union to codify in international ter national laws and called for a general and constructive plan for the work the conference also adopted a resolution providing for a declaration of rights and dutes of nations and another directing a study to prevent wars of aggression the resolutions cleared the way for the conference to consider at its next session the question of reduction of armaments the resolution of codification of in national ter laws was drafted by ellhu root whose paper on the subject had been road read earlier in the day by representative theodore hurton burton of ohio it expressed appreciation for the work of the league of nations and the pan american union on codification and urged a general and constructive tive plan for such codification based on the progress made during recent years with a view to defining the fundamental conditions of the regime of peace to be instituted between the nations it also would provide a plan for the judicial settlement se atle of disputes which constitute a thre threat atto to that regime and to the application if necessary of methods of execution and of sanction the second resolution reported by senator H la fontaine of the belgian group provided for a declaration of rights and duties of nations which would prove a powerful factor in promoting amongst them tho the sense of order of international justice and of responsibility V V pella of the rumanian group introduced the third resolution which would create a permanent committee of the committee on juridical question to undertake the study of all the social political economic and moral causes of wars of aggression and to find practical solutions for the prevention of that crime and to draw up a preliminary draft of an international legal dode code in a preceding passage pass age mr root aad stated his conviction that wars resulted from a state of mind he amplified that statement with the assertion that we have reached a point where war cannot be successfully carried on unless it gratifies the feelings of the great body of the people of the country the conclusion the paper continued Is that the most effective method of dealing with the state of mind which leads to war Is not by any mere negative but a counter af firma formative tive consisting of a substitute tor for decision by war in the form ot of decision by proof and reason considering the tha use of these three institutions in the disposal ot of international controversies under the troubled and excited conditions of europe during the past five years and the results which have been accomplished it Is apparent that these institutions are an evolution from the practically necessities 0 of international ter national life |
