AMERICAN ASSOCIATION In the United States the popular interest in international matters has made it necessary to increase the editions of the monthly documents issued by this Association by 20,000, so that the total circulation of each issue is now 130,000. These publications have been limited in the main to copies or translations of official government documents and reports relating to the war. In this way exact and authoritative information has been diffused and the study of the war from the original documents has been made possible in all parts of the country. Everywhere colleges, normal schools and even secondary schools are making constant use of these publications in teaching the origin, significance and progress of the There has been a rapid growth of serious interest in questions of diplomatic procedure and of international law so far as these relate to the outbreak of the present war and to its conduct. There is also the keenest interest in the history of past efforts for better international organization and in all well supported projects of this kind for the future. The regular monthly documents issued during the year were as follows: war. TO THE CITIZENS OF THE BELLIGERENT STATES 1915 July BY GERARDUS HEYMANS, formerly Professor at Leyden University; since 1890 Professor in the High School at Gronigen. DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EUROPEAN WAR. Series No. VIII August DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EUROPEAN WAR. Series No. IX September II. Contraband of War, Sept. 4, 1914-Apr. 26, 1915 DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EUROPEAN WAR. Series No. X Official Correspondence between the United States and Great Britain I. Declaration of London, Aug. 6, 1914-Oct. 22, 1914 DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EUROPEAN WAR. Series No. XI October November I. Secretary Bryan's letter to Senator Stone regarding Charges of II. The Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Ambassa- III. The Secretary of State to Ambassador Penfield, August 12, 1915 REFERENDUM ON THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC RESULTS December OF THE WAR AND AMERICAN BUSINESS. Reprinted by permission of the THE LAND WHERE HATRED EXPIRES 1916 January BY ALBERT LÉON GUÉRARD, Professor of History of French Culture, Rice 1916 February AMERICA'S OPINION OF THE WORLD WAR BY EDUARD BERNSTEIN, Member of the Reichstag, translated by John Mez INTERNATIONAL COÖPERATION BY JOHN BASSETT MOORE THE OUTLOOK FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW BY ELIHU ROOT DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EUROPEAN WAR. Series No. XII March April SUPER-RESISTANCE BY HAROLD C. GODDARD, Professor of English, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. May GERMAN WHITE BOOK ON ARMED MERCHantmen June In addition to the regular documents the following special pamphlets were published: EXISTING ALLIANCES AND A LEAGUE OF PEACE, BY JOHN Bates Clark PEACE LITERATURE of the WAR, BY JOHN MEZ IS THERE A SUBSTITUTE FOR FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS? BY SUH HU. July, 1915 January, 1916 January, 1916 A volume of 355 pages entitled Towards an Enduring Peace was compiled under the editorship of Professor Franklin H. Giddings and Randolph S. Bourne. This book discusses international organization from the economic and political view-points and in particular considers projects for a world-wide league of peace. In an appendix appear peace proposals and peace problems as outlined in the programs of many societies and in the writings of individuals who have given special study to these subjects. This volume has been widely distributed to libraries and individual scholars. Important libraries and journals have given it most favorable notice. There have also been distributed, particularly among the college libraries and the International Polity Clubs, the following volumes: Angell, Norman Butler, Nicholas Murray Constant, d'Estournelles de Dunning, W. A. Fried, Alfred H. Lippman, Walter Stowell, Ellery C. Great Illusion, The Dangers of Half Preparedness, The International Mind, The The Two Hague Conferences America and Her Problems British Empire and the United States, The Great Settlement, The Restoration of Europe, The Towards International Government Nationalism, War and Society Stakes of Diplomacy, The International Cases A subvention of $2,500 was allotted to the France America Society of New York in aid of its efforts in order to promote greater knowledge and, if possible, an even greater degree of friendship between the people of France and those of the United States. Mr. Dunbar Rowland, Assistant Secretary for the Southern States, with headquarters at Jackson, Miss., reports that there is an increasing public appreciation in the South of the importance of the question of international organization after the war. The prize of $25 given annually by the Association for the best paper on international conciliation written by a high school student is regularly awarded at the general convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Dr. Rudolf Tombo has continued his series of letters of information to Professor Paszkowski in Berlin, who in turn arranges for their publication in the daily and weekly press. The uncertainty of the mail between the United States and Germany together with the working of the censorship makes it impossible to report the results of this correspondence. The American Association for International Conciliation acts as the agent of the Division of Intercourse and Education in conducting certain specific educational endeavors. The most important of these were the organization and maintenance of international polity clubs and instruction at summer sessions and summer schools of various colleges, universities and normal schools. International Polity Clubs, 1915-16. For the second year, the American Association for International Conciliation has assisted the International Polity clubs by guiding them to a serious, nonpartisan course of study in international problems with particular reference to American foreign policy. Instead of endeavoring to create new groups, the Association has directed its efforts rather to strengthening the work of the two score clubs which now exist, by distributing suggestive volumes relating to international affairs; by providing them with speakers, and finally by arranging for the attendance of delegates at a ten-day conference upon International Relations held at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in June, 1916. prize for the best essay upon a subject in the field of international affairs was awarded to a Chinese student of Columbia University, Suh Hu, for his essay, "Is there a substitute for force in international relations ?" During the year expenditures for the work of international polity clubs. amounted to $13,008.79. Summer School Instruction, 1916. The Association coöperated with 79 universities, colleges and state normal schools in offering to their several Summer Sessions courses of instruction intended to stimulate a wider and more intelligent interest in international affairs. These courses were upon international law, international relations, international conciliation, the Spanish language and literature, Latin American history and civilization and the foreign relations of the United States. In these courses there was a total enrollment of 3,300. Institutions so widely distributed as the universities of California, Michigan, Colorado, Washington, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana and Harvard University were included in the list. Because of the type of earnest student usually in attendance at these Summer Sessions-many of them being mature and experienced or prospective teachers and because of the cordial reception of these courses by the institutions and teachers affected, this particular form of activity deserves continued support. During the year expenditures for the work of summer school instruction amounted to $26,506.44. PAN AMERICAN DIVISION The Pan American Division of the American Association for International Conciliation has put into operation a broad and systematic program of work. The documents published and distributed during the year were: July, 1915: November, 1915: March, 1916: May, 1916: (English) May, 1916: (Spanish) "Nova Era na Historia das Nacões Americanas" por CARLOS H. SHERRILL. "Os Estados Unidos como uma Potencia Mundial" por NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. "Enrique Clay y el Panamericanismo” por Juan Bássett Moore. "The University as a Factor in American Relations" (Addresses delivered at the general assembly of the Faculties of Columbia University in honor of the delegates to the Second Pan American Scientific Congress) by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER ERNESTO QUESADA RODRIGO OCTAVIO JULIO PHILLIPPI LUIS ANDERSON "Pan Americanism and the International Policy of Argentina," by ENRIQUE GIL. "La Universidad como Factor en las Relaciones Americanas" (Discursos Pronunciados en la Asamblea General de las Facultades de la Universidad Columbia en Honor de los Delegados al Segundo Congreso Scientífico Panamericano) por NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER ERNESTO QUESADA RODRIGO OCTAVIO JULIO PHILLIPPI LUIS ANDERSON The cordial cooperation of the delegates to the Second Pan American Scientific Congress has brought about a large increase in correspondence. Under the supervision of the Acting Director two important educational plans have been initiated: To overcome the barrier of language which hitherto has hindered the free exchange of contemporary thought between those Americans whose language is Spanish or Portuguese and those Americans whose language is English, a new magazine has been established with the title, Inter-America. Each issue will bring to its readers some of the more instructive contributions to current literature translated either from Spanish or Portuguese into English or from English into Spanish. Beginning with May, 1917, the issue of each alternate month contains Spanish translations of selections from the contemporary periodical literature in the United States. These issues will be circulated mainly in those American Republics where Spanish or Portuguese is the ruling language. The issues of the intervening months, beginning in December, 1917, or possibly June, 1918, will contain English translations of selections from contemporary periodical literature originally printed in Spanish or Portuguese in South or Central America. These issues will be mainly for circulation in the United States. This magazine will be offered at a moderate subscription price. Similarly, for the purpose of increasing the mutual knowledge of the several American republics, a number of selected books in the fields of history, literature, art, civics, education and economics are being translated from English into Spanish for publication and distribution in the republics where Spanish is used. The books already translated or in process of translation from English into Spanish are: |