Note N — INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PEACE CONFERENCE. By JAMES HARRIS VICKERY, LL. B.
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The amendment to Lord Pauncefote’s plan, by which the Dutch Foreign Minister was made the president, is due to Mr. White, President of the American Commission.
O In case states, between whom a dispute may arise, do not of their own accord have recourse to the tribunal, Section 27 permits the powers to remind such states that the Permanent Court is open to them, and the giving of this reminder is declared to be a duty in the superior interests of peace, and is to be regarded only as an exercise of “good offices.” To this section the United States agreed on condition that its consent should not be regarded as a departure from the well-known principles underlying the foreign policy of the Republic.