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Show "union in favor of proposed law RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED TO CONFERENCE RECOGNIZING PROGRESS BEING MADE Twenty-third Session Favors Many Matters of Vital Importance to Nation; Many Nations Are Represented Washington The twenty-third conference con-ference of the Interparliamentary union, in a resolution here, indorsed the efforts of the league of nations and the Pan-American union to codify international laws and called for a general and constructive plan for the work. The conference also adopted a resolution res-olution providing for "a declaration of rights and dutes of nations," and another directing a study to prevent wars of aggression. The resolutions-cleared resolutions-cleared the way for the conference to consider at its next session the question of reduction of armaments. The resolution of codification of international in-ternational laws was drafted by E'.ihu Root, whose paper on the subject had been read earlier in the day by Representative Rep-resentative Theodore Burton of Ohio. It expressed appreciation for the work of the league of nations and the Pan-American union on codification codifi-cation and urged "a general and constructive con-structive 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 be-tween the nations." It also would provide a plan for the judicial settlement settle-ment of disputes "which constitute a threat to that regime, and to the application, appli-cation, if necessary, of methods of execution and of sanction." The second resolution, reported by Senator H. La Fontaine of the Belgian Bel-gian group, provided for "a declaration declara-tion of rights and duties of nations," which would "prove a powerful factor fac-tor in promoting amongst them the sense of order, of international justice jus-tice 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, ques-tion, "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 code." In a preceding passage, Mr. Root ahd stated his conviction that wars resulted from a state of mind. He amplified that statement with the assertion as-sertion that "we have reached a point where war cannot be successfully carried car-ried on unless it gratifies the feelings feel-ings of the great body of the people of the country." "The conclusion," the paper continued, con-tinued, "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-affirmative consisting of a substitute for decision by war in the form of decision de-cision by proof and reason. "Considering the use of these three institutions in the disposal of international inter-national controversies under the troubled and excited conditions of Europe during the past five years and tne Denencient results wnicn nave been accomplished, it is apparent that these institutions are an evolution from the practically necessities of international in-ternational life." |