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Show Permanent Court of International Justice and the Coming Congress By KENNETH D. McKELLAR, Senator From Tennessee. The Permanent Court of International Justice was first provided for in an instrument sponsored by Woodrow Wilson. It was afterward fashioned fash-ioned under authority of that instrument by a committee appointed by the League of Nations, consisting of able and distinguished world lawyers, one of the strongest of such committee members being Elihu Root of New York. The protocol providing for the adherence of the United States to the court, with certain reservations, was approved by Charles Evans Hughes as secretary of state under President Harding. President Harding then submitted the protocol to the senate with a message, recommending its ratification. The senate did not act, and later President Coolidge resubmitted the protocol, with the reservations at- tached, to the senate for ratification and recommended its ratification. Besides, our adherence to the court has the endorsement of both the great political parties in their last national platforms. We cannot afford to stay out of a court endorsed by all the rest cf the world having as its purpose world peace. I am unequivocally for the ratification of the protocol providing for our entrance. I hope it may be promptly ratified on the assembling of the senate in December, and I believe it will be. |