Union and suits by the states against the United States by virtue of special statutory consent for publication in volume form. He has in an advanced state of preparation an essay on the Supreme Court, its practice and procedure in controversies between states, which will be published as a separate but companion volume. These volumes the Director considers not as his contribution, but as the contribution of the Supreme Court of the United States, to the judicial settlement of international disputes, because he has only collected the judgments, and the essay accompanying them is based upon an analysis of the decisions of this august tribunal. He calls this matter to the attention of the Trustees, not for approval, or for the appropriation of any money to carry the project into effect, as the volumes are to be printed and published without expense to the Endowment, but for the purpose of placing them at the disposal of the Endowment for wider circulation should it consider them worthy. Subventions to Journals of International Law JAPANESE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW This review is printed in Tokio in the Japanese language under the direction of Professor Sakuyei Takahashi of the University of Tokyo, an associate of the Institute of International Law, as editor in chief with the assistance of a board of editors of eminent compatriots. Ten issues appear each year, the volumes beginning in the month of September and ending in June. Single copies of the review are sold at the price of 25 sen. Among the leading articles that have appeared in its pages during the past year are: G. Endo: T. Ida: G. Ito: T. Izumi: G. Nfgoro: German action on Belgium at the beginning of the present war. Treatment of prisoners in time of war. International rivers. International police in America. Right of naturalization of Japanese subjects in the Dr. A. Ninagawa: Assimilation of different races and religions. R. Shimatani: S. Tachi: S. Tatch: S. Terada: War from the point of view of eugenics. On immigration. President Wilson's policy of preparedness. Application of the three Hague Declarations in the present war. Effects of war on treaties. Transfers of vessels in time of war. In addition to its leading articles, the review carries departments of notes on European affairs by K. Hayashi, on American affairs by M. Kawasaki, on Chinese affairs by T. Fujita, and on Russian affairs by T. Nomura. At the meeting of the Executive Committee held April 21, 1916, an allotment of $1,300 from the appropriation of the Division was made for a subvention of this review as has been uniformly done in the preceding four years. According to a report received from the management covering the circulation, receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, it appears that the association has distributed 8,200 copies gratis to newspapers, higher educational institutions, libraries, members of parliament, etc. The 260 members of the association have taken 2,600 copies and nearly 6,000 copies have been sold. The expenditures for printing, compensations for articles, etc., amount to a very modest figure especially when viewed in connection with the merit of the publication. A deficit which appears on the balance, due to the advance in cost of paper and printing, is made up as usual by the editors, collaborators, etc., of the review. The issues of the review appear punctually and the subvention has been regularly remitted in quarterly instalments. I have the honor to recommend a like subvention for the coming year. JOURNAL DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL The Executive Committee, at its meeting of April 21, 1916, having allotted the sum of $2,000 for a subvention to the Journal de Droit International by way of purchase of 400 subscriptions to the Journal for the calendar year 1917, these subscriptions have been ordered and paid for. The difficulties created by the war situation in regard to the publication of reviews increase constantly as a result of the mobilization of the collaborators, the scarcity of help, and the cost increase of raw materials. With the Endowment's assistance, however, this journal has been able to hold out. The first part for 1917 (the forty-fourth year) was issued ahead of time; and by the latest advices from M. Clunet progress was being made with the tables of contents for 1916 and for the first part of the Journal for 1917. The Journal has become especially interesting in these times of war owing to the numerous able discussions of many new situations arising out of the present hostile relations of the contesting nations. Among these may be mentioned the character of the maritime blockade exercised by the Allies, revictualing of the enemy by means of neutral vessels, enemy subjects before French tribunals, trade with the enemy and the black lists, contraband of war, aircraft, condition of Germans in Italy after the declaration of war on Austria, actions in English courts of justice by interned enemy subjects, influence of the war on arbitration treaties between neutral States and belligerent powers, arrest of German consuls at Saloniki, etc. The 1916 volume, apart from the indexes, contains 1728 pages, divided among the several departments as follows: leading articles, 293 pages; analyses and extracts, 161 pages; questions and their solutions, 108 pages; current events, 160 pages; judicial decisions, 588 pages; con gresses, associations, etc., 48 pages; documents, 190 pages; news items, 164 pages; and book notices, 16 pages. This total of 1728 compares with 1232 in 1915. I have the honor to recommend a continuance of this subvention for the ensuing year. REVUE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL ET DE LÉGISLATION COMPARÉE The status of this Belgian Revue remains unaltered as described at page 151 of the Year Book for 1916. No issues of the Revue have appeared since that writing and resumption of the publication is not contemplated until the close of the war. Accordingly, no part of the subvention authorized by the Executive Committee at its meeting of April 21, 1916, has been sent, and the sum of $1,000 therefore continues available for use in case the Revue reappears during the coming year. REVUE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL PRIVÉ ET DE DROIT PENAL INTERNATIONAL No change in the status of this Revue has taken place during the past year. The latest payment made by the Endowment covered the subvention instalment for the quarter ended December 31, 1914. The publication of the Revue was completed for the year 1914 but no subsequent numbers have been received. Provision was made by the Executive Committee at its meeting of April 21, 1916, for the continuance of the subvention contingent upon the continuance of the publication, and as this fund will be available for another year, no further allotment is now recommended. REVUE GÉNÉRALE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC The Executive Committee at its meeting of April 21, 1916, allotted from the appropriation for the Division of International Law for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, the sum of $1,500 to this Revue. At its meeting of May 20, 1916, the Committee made an additional allotment of $200 to provide an exceptional supplementary subvention for the year 1916 to this Revue for the publication therein of additional documents relating to the European War. This subvention was promptly remitted and as the Revue continues to appear punctually, the quarterly instalments of the usual subvention have been regularly dispatched. The library of the Endowment has received the six numbers composing the volume for 1916, which was the twenty-third year of its publication. An examination of its contents shows that the main part of the volume contains 612 pages, the section of documents 200 pages, and the French prize court decisions (war of 1914) 146 pages; a total of 958 pages compared with a total of 796 pages for the 1915 volume and 616 pages in the 1914 volume. The Revue has maintained its high standard in the quality of its contributed articles. Among the subjects we find the affairs of the Lusitania, Arabic, Ancona and Persia discussed by M. J. Perrinjaquet, the Portuguese requisition of German ships by Professor Basdevant, the Greek prize courts by S. P. Seferiades, the status in France of enemy nationals by Professor Valery, and aerial warfare by Professor Rolland, of Nancy. Mr. Fauchille is to be congratulated on maintaining his Revue as he has done amid the difficulties that surround such enterprises at the present time in the belligerent countries. The Revue has not interrupted its regular publication since the commencement of the European War. The Director accordingly recommends the continuance of the usual subvention of $1,500 and also a renewal for 1917 of the exceptional supplementary subvention to enable the Revue to print supplementary folios of documents bearing upon the European War. REVISTA AMERICANA DE DERECHO INTERNACIONAL During the year which has just closed the Spanish edition of the American Journal of International Law, which, as indicated in previous reports, is financed by the Endowment, has been regularly issued each quarter, and the Proceedings of the annual meeting have also been translated and distributed. There was a substantial increase in the regular circulation of the Revista during the year 1916. Fifty-seven new subscribers and four additional exchanges were added to the list. The regular circulation of the Revista is now 303, a net gain of twenty-three over last year. Reference was made in the report for last year1 to the Spanish edition of the Special Supplement to the American Journal of International Law for July, 1915, containing the diplomatic correspondence of the United States with belligerent governments relating to neutral rights and duties, and to the value of the distribution of these documents in Spanish. A second number of this series was issued by the Journal as a Special Supplement in October, 1916, and the Director is happy to report that authority has been granted by the Executive Committee for translating this second number into Spanish and distributing it to the readers of the Revista. The volume contains some 500 pages and is now in course of translation. contents have been previously described in this report. Its It is planned to make a systematic effort during the present year to place the Revista in the hands of every member of each of the national societies of international law affiliated with the American Institute of International Law. As indicated in the report for last year, special inducements have been offered to such members to become subscribers to the Revista. 1 Year Book for 1916. p. 152. RIVISTA DI DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE In accordance with the allotment by the Executive Committee at its meeting of April 21, 1916, the usual assistance was given this excellent Italian review by way of subscription to 100 copies thereof. The latest number received by the library of the Endowment is for the second quarter of 1916. Among the articles that have appeared during the past year are several written by Professor Anzilotti with his customary penetration and discrimination on Article 15 of the Declaration of London, the obligation of belligerents to indemnify for unconfiscable neutral goods that they have destroyed on enemy vessels, and the Franco-Venezuelan protocol of February 11, 1913. Professor Anzilotti's valuable notes on current decisions of prize courts should also be mentioned. A statement of the financial condition of the Rivista for the year 1915 shows a small deficit due to the difficulty of collecting a number of subscriptions in the present circumstances and is regarded as merely temporary. I have the honor to recommend a continuance of the subvention for the coming year. The Rivista di Diritto Internazionale is published at Rome in quarterly numbers of over 140 pages each. Each number contains, as a rule, doctrinal articles, a chronicle and comment on international events, annotated court decisions both international and national, critical reviews of foreign legislation and jurisprudence in so far as they affect Italian interests, the text or summary of all conventions concluded by Italy and the most noteworthy ones between foreign countries, bibliographic reviews and notes, and an indication of the contents of all important articles in its field published in Italian and foreign periodicals. The annual subscription price is 14 lire within Italy and 16 lire abroad. Subventions to Societies AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES The origin, the nature and the activity of the Judicial Settlement Society have been fully described in the annual reports of the Division of International Law, and it is therefore not necessary to enter into details concerning these matters.1 Suffice it to say that the Society was founded for the sole purpose of advancing the cause of judicial settlement and its program consists of but a single article, the establishment of an international court of justice recommended by the Second Hague Conference to the world at large. It holds an annual meeting to create an interest in judicial settlement and to discuss the means whereby the cause may be advanced. It publishes and widely distributes the printed proceedings of each meeting, and it issues and distributes thirty thousand copies of a quarterly devoted to some phase of judicial settlement. It is not presumptuous enough to believe that it can by its action procure the acceptance of judicial settlement and the establishment of an interna 1See Year Books, 1912, p. 157; 1913–1914, p. 152; 1915, p. 160; 1916, p. 172. |