List of Participating Organizations and Speakers Representing Them List of Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate STATEMENT OF HON. GEORGE W. WICKERSHAm, on Behalf OF THE AMERICAN STATEMENT OF DR. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL, PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNI- 92 OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE INTRODUCTION The following statement, which contains a list of state and national organizations participating in the hearings and of speakers who appeared before the subcommittee, was prepared by the Committee on Arrangements and submitted to the members of the Senate of the United States on May 19, 1924. The introduction by Senator Lodge, May 8th, of a resolution to create a new World Court throws into bold relief the fact that American public opinion overwhelmingly demands the prompt adherence by our Government to the Protocol of Signature of the Permanent Court of International Justice on the conditions formulated by Secretary Hughes, vigorously championed by President Harding and approved by President Coolidge. The hearings on April 30th and May 1st before the subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations indisputably prove our people's support of the existing Court. More than fifty state and national organizations were interested in the hearings. Seldom, if ever, has any great public question received so nearly a unanimous indorsement as has this suggested adherence of the United States to the Permanent Court of International Justice, on the basis suggested by the Secretary of State and urged by President Harding in February, 1923, and by President Coolidge in his first message to Congress. The widespread and profound character of this popular demand was officially voiced on behalf of all of the following organizations whose representatives appeared before the subcommittee and categorically appealed for immediate action by the Senate to enable the Administration to adhere to the Permanent Court: American Bar Association George W. Wickersham American Federation of Labor Edgar Wallace Chamber of Commerce of the Walker D. Hines Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America Bishop Charles H. Brent Rev. Sidney L. Gulick Official Church Bodies American Unitarian Association Rev. Edward Cummings Central Conference of American Rabbis Rabbi Abram Simon Congregational Churches Rev. Jason Noble Pierce Methodist Episcopal Church (South) Rev. W. W. Pinson Methodist Episcopal Church Mr. F. P. Turner Northern Baptist Convention Rev. John M. Moore Church Peace Union Prof. William I. Hull Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Rev. Arthur J. Brown Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Rev. Samuel H. Chester Protestant Episcopal Church Rev. Charles N. Lathrop Reformed Church in United States Society of Friends Thomas Raeburn White Religious Organizations Conference of Foreign Mission Boards Mr. F. P. Turner Council of Women for Home Missions Mrs. Samuel Semple World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches Dr. Nehemiah Boynton Connecticut Federation of Churches Prof. William North Rice Women's National Organizations Young Women's Christian Associations Miss Agnes Peter National League of Women Voters General Federation of Women's Mrs. Kate T. Abrams American Federation of Teachers Miss Selma Borchard Girls Friendly Society in America Mrs. Reginald B. Stevenson National Service Star Legion Mrs. Henry F. Baker Women's World Court Committee Mrs. Raymond Morgan, Chairman National Council of Women Mrs. Glen Swiggett National Federation of Business and Professional Women National Congress of Mothers and New York State Bar Association League of Nations Non-Partisan Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw Everett Colby Charles C. Bauer California League of Women Voters Illinois Federation of Women's Mrs. James Morrisson New York Council to Prevent War National Council of Jewish Women World Peace Foundation President A. Lawrence Lowell Foreign Policy Association James G. McDonald Dr. William H. Welch John H. Latané In addition to the organizations actually represented at the hearings, the following have officially in convention approved the adherence of the United States to the Permanent Court. House of Bishops of the Protestant United Society of Christian Endeavor National Ass'n of Credit Men National Council of the Congregational International Missionary Union The following are among the well-known persons who either appeared at the hearings as individuals or sent approval of the Harding-Hughes Permanent Court Plan to be filed in the records: Nicholas Murray Butler, Pres. Columbia University Paul D. Cravath-New York Charles W. Dabney, Ex-Pres. University of Cincinnati William D. Guthrie-New York |