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Show IWORLD COURT" ! DEBUTE NEAR : POWERS DECIDE .ON WRITING j PROTOCOL, AND INVITE U. S. j TO HELP REVIEW IT I A New Angle on the Question o) i American Adherence to the World Court Developed Just Before Adjournment of Conference i Geneva A committee report concerning con-cerning acceptance of American res-erations res-erations to membership In the world court Thursday was accepted by a delegate del-egate conference, after which that body adjourned. As a result of the I adoption of .the report, the United States will be invited to participate in the drawing up of a special protocol which will translate the five American reservations into the language of the i court and the covenant of the league of nations. After adjournment the delegates del-egates began signing the iinal act embodying a draft of the protocol which will be forwarded to Washington Washing-ton both in behalf of the conference and the individual states involved. The protocol as finally agreed upon, after considerable debate, will give the right to the powers in the court to withdraw their aproval of American reservations if they see fit later. Sir Francis remarked that the former for-mer German territory of western Samoa is separated only by a narrow strip, of water from American Samoa. He said that partly because of this proximity and partly because of thj prewar treaties between German and the United States, questions already have arisen and others probably will arise in the future between the United States and New Zealand. j |