HUMANITARIAN

ASYLUM

CONVENTION ON POLITICAL ASYLUM 1

Dominican Republic

1

The American Legation at Santo Domingo reported by patch dated November 16, 1934, that the Dominican Congress, by law no. 775, which was signed by the President of the Republic on October 26, 1934, approved without reservation the convention on political asylum signed at Montevideo December 26, 1933, at the Seventh International Conference of American States.

EDUCATION

CONVENTION FOR FACILITATING THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF FILMS OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER 2

India

The Secretary General of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State by a circular letter dated October 29, 1934, of the deposit of the instrument of ratification by Great Britain, on behalf of India, of the convention for facilitating the international circulation of films of an educational character, signed at Geneva October 11, 1933. The instrument of ratification was deposited with the Secretariat on October 17, 1934, and is subject to the reservation expressed at the time of signing the convention by His Majesty's Plenipotentiary for India as follows:

"Under the terms of Article XX of this Convention, I declare that my signature is not binding as regards the enforcement of its provisions in the territories in India of any Prince or Chief under suzerainty of His Majesty."

By a second note dated October 29, 1934, the Secretary General of the League of Nations transmitted to the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of article XVII of the convention, a certified copy of a procès-verbal drawn up on October 17, 1934, stating that five ratifications of or accessions to the above-mentioned convention had been deposited with the Secretariat.

See Bulletins No. 52, January 1934, p. 16, and No. 55, April 1934, p. 21. See Bulletin No. 61, October, 1934, p. 7.

In compliance with paragraph 1 of article XVIII of the convention it will enter into force 90 days after October 17, 1934, namely, on January 15, 1935, the date on which it will be registered with the Secretariat by the Secretary General of the League of Nations. Subsequent ratifications or accessions will enter into force 90 days after the date of the deposit of the instruments thereof.

OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS

CONVENTION FOR LIMITING THE MANUFACTURE AND REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS 3

Canada-Free City of Danzig-Germany-Siam

By communications dated November 5, 8, and 12, 1934, the Secretary General of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State that the Governments of Canada, of Poland for the Free City of Danzig, of Germany, and of Siam had notified him that they have no objections to the reservation which the Japanese Government desires to make in regard to its ratification of the convention for limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs, signed at Geneva July 13, 1931.

Honduras

According to a communication from the League of Nations dated October 2, 1934, the instrument of ratification of the accession of Honduras to the convention for limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs, signed July 13, 1931, was deposited with the Secretariat on September 21, 1934. On page 7 of Bulletin No. 60, for September 1934, the information received from the American consulate at Geneva to the effect that the instrument of ratification by Honduras had been deposited should be corrected to read the "instrument of ratification of the accession by Honduras ".

Ecuador

INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION

By a circular letter dated November 1, 1934, the Secretary General of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State that the instrument of accession by Ecuador to the international opium convention signed at Geneva February 19, 1925, was deposited with the Secretariat on October 23, 1934.

SAFETY

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA

India

5

The British Ambassador by a note dated November 8, 1934, informed the Secretary of State that the instrument of ratification by India of the convention for the safety of life at sea, signed at London May 31, 1929, was deposited with the British Government on October 1, 1934. The convention will take effect in respect of India on January 1, 1935.

The Ambassador's note adds that the convention has now been adhered to or ratified by the following countries: Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Free City of Danzig, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, India, Irish Free State, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. "See Bulletin No. 59, August 1934, p. 6.

ECONOMIC

AGRICULTURE

INTERNATIONAL WHEAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The President has appointed Mr. Frederick E. Murphy, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mr. Loyd V. Steere, agricultural attaché at the American Embassy in Berlin, as permanent American representatives on the International Wheat Advisory Committee, the Committee formed to supervise the working of the international wheat agreement concluded at London on August 25, 1933.1

The number of permanent American representatives on the Committee is thus brought to 4, as the Honorable Robert Worth Bingham, American Ambassador to Great Britain, and the Honorable John Van Antwerp MacMurray, American Minister to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, were appointed in this capacity in September 1933. Mr. MacMurray and Mr. Steere represented the United States at the meeting of the Committee which convened at Budapest on November 20, 1934.

AVIATION

CONVENTION RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF AERIAL NAVIGATION 2

Argentina

The American Embassy at Buenos Aires reported by a despatch dated October 19, 1934, that the Argentine Boletin Oficial, no. 12092, for October 2, 1934, published a decree authorizing the adherence of Argentina to the convention for the regulation of aerial navigation, signed at Paris October 13, 1919, and modified by the protocols of May 1, 1920, October 27, 1922, June 30, 1923, June 15, 1929, and December 11, 1929.

INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OF AERIAL LEGAL EXPERTS &

The ninth annual session of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts was held at Berlin from September 26 to 29,

1

See Bulletin No. 49, October 1933, p. 8. For text of the agreement see Bulletin No. 48, September 1933, p. 18.

2

See Bulletin No. 60, September 1934, p. 8.

inclusive, 1934. The following countries were represented: United States of America, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Representatives of the International Commission for Air Navigation and the International Labor Bureau attended the session ad audiendum.

The United States was represented by Mr. John Jay Ide, technical assistant in Europe for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, who is also technical assistant to the American members of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts. Meetings of the First and Fourth Commissions, functioning under the authority of the Committee, were held prior to the session of the Committee. The members of the First Commission had under consideration the matter of the interpretation by the Committee of private air law conventions. There was presented to the Fourth Commission a report on the status of the crews of aircraft, a question being studied in collaboration wtih the International Labor Bureau. The principal work of the session of the Committee was the approval of two draft conventions prepared by the Third Commission. One relates to assistance and salvage of aircraft and the other to aerial collisions. After being further considered by the Committee these drafts will be referred for final adoption to the Fourth International Conference on Private Aerial Law, to be held in 1936.

The next meetings of the commissions and the Committee are scheduled to take place as follows: The Third and Fourth Commissions will meet in Paris in May 1935. The tenth annual session of the Committee will be held at Lisbon during the latter part of September or early in October 1935. Meetings of the First and Second Commissions will be held at Lisbon immediately following the session of the Committee at that place.

COMMERCE

CONVENTION ON THE EXECUTION OF FOREIGN ARBITRAL AWARDS

Malta

4

According to a communication from the League of Nations dated. October 26, 1934, the accession of Malta to the convention on the execution of foreign arbitral awards, signed at Geneva September 26, 1927, was registered with the Secretariat on October 11, 1934.

'See Bulletin No. 60, September 1934, p. 9.