FUNCTIONING SINCE JANUARY 10, 1920

The League of Nations formally came into being by the official deposit of the ratifications of the treaty of Versailles at the French Foreign Office, at Paris, on January 10, 1920, at 4.15 p.m. By that deposit the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Czecho-Slovakia, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Poland, Siam and Uruguay became the first 14 members of the League of Nations.

Within the next two months 42 of the states named in the Annex to the Covenant-all except three-had become original Members of the League.

II. MEMBERS

"ART. 1. The original Members of the League of Nations shall be those of the Signatories which are named in the Annex to this Covenant, and also such of those other States named in the Annex as shall accede without reservation to this Covenant. . .

"Any fully self-governing State, Dominion or Colony not named in the Annex may become a Member of the League if its admission is agreed to by two-thirds of the Assembly, provided that it shall give effective guaranties of its sincere intention to observe its international obligations, and shall accept such regulations as may be prescribed by the League in regard to its military, naval and air forces and armaments."-Covenant.

CO-OPERATION OF NON-MEMBER STATES

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ACCREDITED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Grace Abbott, delegate appointed by the United States Government, attended the Second Session of the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children, held at Geneva, March 4-27, 1923.

Dr. Rupert Blue, formerly U. S. Surgeon-General, member of Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium, attended Fourth and Fifth Sessions, 1923.

Roland W. Boyden, delegate to Brussels Financial Conference, 1920, assisted by Keith MacLeod, and Col. R. H. Hess as advisers, and Thomas Shaw, secretary.

Bishop Charles H. Brent, member of Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium at the Fifth Session, 1923.

Surgeon-General Hugh S. Cumming, U. S. Public Health Service, member of the Standing Health Committee.

Fred R. Dolbeare, member of Committee for Loan for Greek Refugees, appointed in connection with the discussions of the Financial Committee on the loan.

Dr. Marion Dorset served on the Anthrax Commission of the International Labor Office.

Joseph C. Grew, former American minister to Switzerland, attended the Ninth Meeting of the Temporary Mixed Commission on Armaments, assisted by Capt. Alan Winslow.

Lewis W. Haskell, American consul at Geneva, attended the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit, 1923, also attended Conference on Customs Formalities, 1923, assisted by the following experts: Henry Chalmers, chief of the bureau of foreign tariffs of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; Gilbert Hirsch, of the U. S. Tariff Commission; C. B. Wait, Customs Attaché at London; and H. I. Worley, of the U. S. Customs Service.

Col. James A. Logan, unofficial representative of the United States on the Reparation Commission, participated in discussions on the Loan for Greek Refugees.

Alexander R. Magruder, Chargé d'Affaires at Berne, acted in consultative capacity at the Conference on Obscene Publications. W. W. Husband, Commissioner General of Immigration of the United States, assisted at Conference of Immigration and Emigration of the International Labor Office, May, 1924.

Edwin L. Neville, of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, official United States delegate to the Opium Preparatory Committee on the Program for the General Opium Conference, to be held in Geneva in November, 1924.

Vice-Admiral Albert P. Niblack, U. S. N. retired, member of Directing Committee of the International Hydrographic Bureau. Hon. Stephen G. Porter, member of Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium at the Fifth Session, 1923.

OTHER AMERICANS CO-OPERATING UNOFFICIALLY

Communications and Transit.

Willis H. Booth, President of the International Chamber of Commerce, member of subcommittee on Calendar Reform.

Basil Miles, American Administrative Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce, attended Second General Conference on Communications and Transit, November, 1923. Customs Formalities.

Edward L. Bacher, of the United States Chamber of Commerce, participated in Conference on Customs Formalities, 1923.

Edgar Carolan, Vice-President of the International General Electric Company, represented the International Chamber of Commerce at the Conference on Customs Formalities, 1923.

Everit B. Terhune, of the United States Chamber of Commerce, participated in the Conference on Customs Formalities, 1923. Economic and Financial Organization.

DOUBLE TAXATION COMMITTEE:

Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman, Columbia University.

Hungarian

W. P. G. Harding, member of Hungarian Committee of the Council of the League.

Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Commissioner-General for Hungary.

Health Organization.

Dr. John J. Abel, of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, participated in the work of the Conference on Standardization of Biological Remedies, 1923.

Dr. C. Armstrong, Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service, participated in Technical Laboratory Conference on Serodiagnosis of Syphilis, Copenhagen, November 19-December 3, 1923.

Thomas J. Duffield, field epidemiologist.

Dr. R. E. Dyer, Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service, participated in Technical Laboratory Conference on Serodiagnosis of Syphilis, Copenhagen, November 19-December 3, 1923.

Dr. Otto Eichel, of the New York State Health Service, temporary member of Health Section.

Mr. S. M. Gunn, of the Rockefeller Foundation, participated in the Conference of Delegates of the Public Health Personnel Interchanges, held at London, April 10, 1923.

Dr. Alice Hamilton, Harvard Medical School, assessor of the Standing Health Committee.

Dr. George W. McCoy, Director of Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service, attended a meeting of the subcommittee on anti-tetanus and diphtheria sera.

Dr. Howard F. Smith, of Manila, assisted Chief Commission of the Health Section on Mission of Inquiry in Far East. Edgar Sydenstricker, statistical service of the Health Committee.

Dr. Carl Voegtlin, Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service, participated in the work of the Conference on Standardization of Biological Remedies, 1923.

Miss Dorothy Wiehl, statistical assistant, Health Committee. Dr. Charles-Edward A. Winslow, Yale Medical School, member of Provisional Health Committee, representing League of Red Cross Societies, assisted by Prof. Leon Bernard.