VI. BUDGETS 1. May 5, 1919-June 30, 1920-£291,078 15s. 10d. 2. April 1-December 31, 1920-10,000,000 gold 3. January 1-December 31, 1921-21,250,000 gold 4. January 1-December 31, 1922-20,873,945 gold 5. January 1-December 31, 1923-25,673,508 gold 6. January 1-December 31, 1924-23,233,635.7 gold francs-$4,483,007.69. The budget is divided among the Member states by an equitable system of allocation, under which units are assigned to the Member states and the budget divided by the total number of units to determine the base payment. The allocation for 1924 by units and in dollars follows: VII. PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Meetings Preliminary session, January 30-March 24, 1922. First annual session, June 15-August 12, 1922. Third (ordinary) session, June 15-September 15, Fourth (extraordinary) session, November 12- Second annual session, June 15- 1924. Origin-The Permanent Court of International Justice realizes a policy which has been advocated by the United States Government for more than 50 years. The American delegations to the Hague Conferences in 1899 and 1907 supported the formation of a court, which, however, failed to come into being. Article 14 of the Covenant of the League of Nations provides for the establishment of such a court. In fulfillment of this provision the Council of the League on February 13, 1920, appointed an Advisory Committee of Jurists to formulate the scheme of its organization. The membership of the Committee was: Mineichiro ADATCI, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, at Brussels; Rafael ALTAMIRA, senator, professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Clovis BEVILAQUA, legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; Raoul FERNANDES, Brazilian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. Francis HAGERUP, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Norway at Stockholm; Albert de LAPRADELLE, professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris; Bernard C. J. LODER, member of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands; Baron PHILLIMORE, member of the Privy Council of His Majesty the King of England; Arturo RICCI-BUSATTI, minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Italy, legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy; Elihu ROOT, former Secretary of State of the United States of America. The draft statute of the Advisory Committee of Jurists was examined by the Council of the League of Nations at its meetings at San Sebastian, July 30-August 4, and the Council decided to communicate the draft scheme for the institution of the Court to the Governments Members of the League. It was studied by the Council at Paris on September 16 and finally approved by it at Brussels on October 20-28. The draft statute was submitted to the First Assembly of the League at Geneva in November, 1920. The Assembly by a unanimous vote on December 13, 1920, approved the resolution providing that the Statute be appended to a protocol which should be submitted within the shortest possible time to the Members of the League of Nations for ratification. Ratifications were promptly made, and the Second Assembly and Council of the League of Nations on September 14-15, 1921, proceeded to the election of the 11 Judges and the four Deputy Judges of the Court. PROPOSAL FOR ACTION BY UNITED STATES The President of the United States on February 24, 1923, transmitted to the Senate a message in which he sought the advice and consent of that body to ratification of the protocol and Statute under special conditions. Summary Procedure-LODER (President), WEISS and HUBER; FINLAY and ALTAMIRA, substitutes. Labor Questions-FINLAY (President), BUSTAMANTE, ALTAMIRA, ANZILOTTI and HUBER; NYHOLM and MOORE, substitutes. Transit and Communications-WEISS (President), PESSOA1, NYHOLM, MOORE and ODA; ANZILOTTI and HUBER, substitutes. Registrar Ake Hammarskjöld (Sweden) CASES DECIDED BY THE COURT 1. The S.S. Wimbledon, The British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and Poland (intervener) v. Germany. On March 21, 1921, the British steamship Wimbledon, chartered by the French firm "Les Affréteurs réunis", carrying 4,200 tons 1 Elected September 10, 1923, to succeed Ruy Barbosa (d. March 1, 1923). |