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 The Legal World ‘3 :1‘! International Law

day, addresses were made by Hunting

ton Vilson, Congressman Richard Bar American Society of International Law. — The ﬁfth annual meeting of the Soci

ety was held at Washington, D. C., April 27-29. At the opening session Senator Root, president of the Society, delivered an address, after which there was a general discussion of "the status of resident aliens in international law,’I

in which Charles Cheney Hyde of Chicago, Prof. James F. Colby of Dart mouth College, S. Mallet-Prevost and James Barclay of New York took part. At the two following days’ sessions “The Admission and Restrictions upon the Admission of Aliens" and kindred topics were discussed by Solicitor Earl of the

Department of Commerce and Labor, Theodore Marburg of Baltimore, Prof. Charles Noble Gregory of Iowa State

University, Prof. J. W. Garner of the University of Illinois, Frederic R. Cou dert, and others. The annual banquet was made notable by an address of

President Taft, the honorary president, dealing with the sanction of inter national law, other speakers being Japan

tholdt, James L. Slayden, Prof. E. H.

Griﬁen, Dr. F. W. Boatweight and James Speyer. One of the chief speeches made at the Congress was that of Hon. John W. Foster, former Secretary of State, on

the afternoon of the closing day, scor ing our neutrality laws for the faults revealed in connection with the Mexican

difﬁculty. Other addresses were made by Dr. T. Iyenaga, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Price Collier, President E. D. Warﬁeld of Lafayette College, Speaker Champ Clark, Henry Clews, Edwin Ginn and United States Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, who was elected president, the other oﬁicers chosen being: Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood of Boston,

secretary, and George W. White of Washington, D. C., treasurer.

The proposed unlimited treaty of arbi tration between Great Britain and the United States drew forth appreciative remarks from many of the speakers. The proposed League of Peace, as dis

ese Ambassador Uchida, Sir Charles

cussed by Mr. Holt, excited interest, as did also the suggestion of James Speyer

Fitzpatrick, Chief Justice of Canada; Martin A. Knapp of the Court of Com

the New York banker, that war might be prevented by “ﬁnancial neutrality." In

merce; Representative Foster of Ver

case two nations went to war without

mont and Senator Henri La Fontaine of Belgium.

ﬁrst submitting their diﬂerenoes to arbi tration, why, he asked, should not the other neutral powers bind themselves not to assist either of the belligerentS

Third National Peace Congress. — The Third National Peace Congress met in Baltimore May 3-5, the ﬁrst having been held in New York in 1907, and the second in Chicago in 1909. President

Taft opened the Congress with an address, and other speakers on the ﬁrst day included Harry Holt, presi

dent of the Congress, Cardinal Gibbons and Andrew Carnegie. On the second

ﬁnancially?

The Madrid Conference. —The Insti tute of International Law, meeting at Madrid early in May, considered the question of the employment of mines by

neutral powers for the protection of their neutrality. The law relating to international aerial navigation received