Colonel Stimson said that he} notified the Secretary-General of the League of Nations last month that he approved of the proteeal it if other nations ratified it, In endeavouring to make the United States a member of the Court, President Hoover will carry on a project which two Presidents before him urged. In 1925, the House adopted resolution sorted to before the protocol of adherence could be ratified. Five reservations accompanied the xatification, two of which were un favourably received by Court members.
The principal objection was to the fifth resolution, which provided that the Court could not render a decision in which the United States had or claimed an interest without the consent of this county. -Pre dent Coolidge urged American adherenee, but was unable to compose the differences between Court members and the Senate, Reservatio Met Mr. Kellogg revived discussion' carly this year in a note to the League suggesting negotiations be reopened. Mr. Root soon afterward went to Geneva as member of a commission of international jurists to revise the court statutes. Although participating in a private capacity, Mr. Root was understood to be acting with more than unofficial authority. Upon his return reported to President Hoover and Col. Stimson, The Geneva commission adopted pian for revision incorporating the called Root formula for American adherence to the court. Advocates of adherence believe the new statutes will remove the nocessity for Senate reservations. President Hoover and Colonel Stimson fare understood to share this view.
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