[D istributed to the Council
and the Members of the League.]
Official No. :
C« 413. M . 183. 1930. V.
Geneva, August 2nd, 1930.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
RESIGNATION OF THE
HONOURABLE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, JUDGE OF THE
PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE :
ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR.
LIST OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY THE
NATIONAL GROUPS.
Mr. Hughes’ resignation was notified to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Court
by a telegram dated February 14th, 1930. The te x t of this telegram has been communicated
to the Members of the League, the Council, and the Assembly in document A.7.1930.V.
On May 12th last, the Council approved the following proposals made to it by its Rapporteur,
the representative of Italy:
“ The Council and the Members of the League have been informed b y the
Secretary-General of the resignation of the Honourable Charles Evans Hughes, Judge of the
Permanent Court of International Justice, in consequence of his appointment as Chief Justice
of the United States of America, which m ade it necessary for him to sever his connection
with the Permanent Court of International Justice (document A.7.1930.V.).
“ The Council will, I am sure, desire th a t the Secretary-General should, on its behalf,
convey to Mr. Hughes its regret th a t the high office to which he has been called should involve
his resignation of membership of the Perm anent Court.
“ Mr. Hughes has expressed the wish th a t his resignation should take immediate effect.
I have no doubt th a t the Council and the Assembly would desire th a t the resignation should
be treated as taking effect on the date indicated by Mr. Hughes. The amendments to the
Statute of th e Court which were drawn up last year and now await ratification by
the Governments provide th at the resignation of a member of the Court shall become operative
so soon as it has been communicated to the President of the Court and notified by the latter
to the Secretary-General. In the absence, however, of express provisions on the subject in
the Statute of the Court as at present in force, and in accordance with the precedent established
on the occasion of the resignation of Judge Bassett Moore, in 1928, it appears to be formally
necessary th a t the Council and the Assembly should both accept the present resignation.
I propose, therefore, th a t the Council, in accordance with the precedent which I have
mentioned, should accept the resignation subject to the concurrence of the Assembly.
I propose also th at, as on the former occasion, the Council should request the Secretary-General
to take the necessary steps to secure the nomination of candidates w ith a view to the eventual
election of a successor to Mr. Hughes during the next session of the Assembly.
“ The period for which such successor would be appointed would, of course, be only th a t
elapsing between the date of his election and the end of the year, when the mandates of all the
members of the Court expire and the new Court to be elected next September enters into
office. It appears to me, however, proper th a t the Assembly and the Council should, in
September, be in a position to fill, should they so desire, the vacancy resulting from
Mr. Hughes’ resignation."
In execution of the Council’s decision, the Secretary-General invited the national groups
mentioned in Article 4 of the Court’s Statute to make nominations with a view to the eventual
election of a successor to Mr. Hughes for the period down to December 31st, 1930.
The Secretary-General has now the honour to communicate herewith to the Members of the
League the list, in alphabetical order, of the candidates nom inated by t h e national groups.
This list contains the names of candidates nom inated down to August 1st, the date by which
the groups were invited to transm it their nominations. Nominations subsequently received
will, in accordance with precedent, be included in the final list which will be communicated to the
Assembly and the Council at the opening of the session of the Assembly.
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The present document is divided into two parts :
Part I : List of the candidates nom inated by the national groups ;
Part I I : Statem ents of the careers of the candidates.
P art II contains the particulars regarding the careers of the candidates which have been
supplied by the national groups in accordance with the desire expressed by the Assembly in its
resolution of September 14th, 1929.
The relevant provisions of the Statute of the Court and the procedure to be followed in the
election are dealt with in a note by the Secretary-General which has already been distributed
to the Council and Assembly (document A.14.1930.V.).
PART I. — LIST OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY T H E NATIONAL GROUPS.
Mr. Newton D . B a k e r (United States of America).
Nominated by the national group of Siam.
Mr. Roland William B o y d e n (United States of America).
Nom inated by the national group of Austria.
M. Chao Phya D e b v i d u r (Siam).
Nominated by the national group of Siam.
M. j . Gustavo G u e r r e r o (Salvador).
Nominated by the national groups of Albania, Dominican Republic, France.
M. Julian d e l a Hoz (Uruguay).
Nominated by the national group of Uruguay.
Mr. Charles Cheney H y d e (United States of America).
Nominated by the national group of the Netherlands.
Mr. Philip J e s s u p (United States o f America).
Nominated by the national group of Switzerland.
Mr. Frank B. K e l l o g g (United States o f America).
Nom inated by the national groups of Denmark, Norway, Uruguay.
Mr. Roscoe P o u n d (United States of America).
Nominated by the national groups of Australia, Germany, Great Britain.
M. Joseph R e d l i c h (Austria).
Nominated by the national group of Austria.
Mr. Jam es Brown S c o t t (United States of America).
Nominated by the national groups of Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland,
Poland, Y ugoslavia.
M. W alther S i m o n s (Germany).
Nominated by the national group of Denmark.
Mr. George W . W i c k e r s h a m (United States of America).
Nominated by the national groups of France, Sweden, Switzerland.
Mr. John H. W i g m o r e (United States of America).
Nominated by the national groups of Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxemburg, Portugal.
Mr. George Grafton W i l s o n (United States of America).
Nominated by the national group of Norway.
PA R T II. — STATEMENTS OF CAREERS OF CANDIDATES.
Mr.
Newton D.
Baker.
Formerly Secretary of War.
M r.
Roland William
Boyden.
Barrister ; Delegate of the United States of America to the Reparations Commission
and to the International Economic Conference.
M. Chao Phya
D eb v id u r .
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Siam; Barrister at G ray’s Inn; formerly
Judge of the Civil Appeal Court of Siam and former Director-General of Public Prosecution ;
Member of the Commission of Legislative Redaction.
M. J. Gustavo
Guerrero.
Born at San Salvador in 1877; Doctor of Law of the Faculties of Salvador and
Guatemala ; Prefect of San Salvador ; Judge in the Courts of Justice of Salvador; Entered
diplomatic service, 1902; First Secretary of Legation at Washington ; Chargé d’Affaires
at Washington, 1908; Advocate for Salvador in the dispute between the Governments
of Italy and Salvador on the A. Canessa claim ; Minister Plenipotentiary in Italy, 1912 ;
Minister Plenipotentiary in Spain, in France, and to the Holy See.
Head of Delegation at the First and succeeding Assemblies of the League of
Nations.
Delegate to the Central American Conference at Washington, 1922.
Head of Delegation at the Sixth Pan-American Conference, 1928, and to numerous
other international conferences in Europe and America.
Vice-President of the International Conference on the Trade in Arms and
Am m unition and in Implements of War.
Vice-President of the Preparatory Commission for the Conference on the Private
Manufacture of Arms.
Chairman of the Political Committee of the Eighth Assembly of the League of
Nations.
Vice-Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Communications and Transit
Organisation.
Chairman of the Legal Committee on Polish-Lithuanian Questions.
Chairman of the Public International Law Committee of the Sixth Pan-American
Conference.
R apporteur of the Committee of Legal Experts for th Codification of International
Law on the following questions:
Responsibility of States for Damage done in their Territories to the Persons or
Property of Foreigners.
Legal Position and Functions of Consuls.
Revision of the Classification of Diplomatic Agents.
R apporteur of the Third Committee on the Supervision of the Private Manufacture
of Arm s to the Seventh, Eighth and N inth Assemblies of the League of Nations.
R apporteur to the Council of the League of Nations on the question of
communications of importance to the League at times of emergency.
R apporteur to the Council of the League on the agreement reached between
the representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and Roumania, with regard
to the jurisdiction of the European Commission of the Danube.
R apporteur to the Council of the League on the following disputes :
(a) Between the Arad-Csanad Railway Company and the Hungarian
and Roumanian Governments.
(b) Between the Maramarosi Railway Company and Roumania.
(c) Between the Szatmar-Mateszalka Railway Company and the
Nagykaroly-Mateszalka-Csap Railway Company.
Rapporteur to the Council of the League on the question of identity documents
for persons without nationality.
Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
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Member of the Sub-Committee set up by the Committee of Experts for the
Progressive Codification of International Law with instructions:
(1) To examine, with a view to regulation by international agreement
the questions of the nationality of commercial corporations and of the
determ ination of the State to which the right of affording them diplomatic
protection belongs.
(2) To examine, with a view to regulation by international agreement
the question of the recognition of the legal personality of foreign commercial
corporations.
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Salvador, 1927;
Minister of Justice;
Minister of Education;
Member of the Committee of Three Jurists appointed to draw up a systematic
survey of the subjects of international law with a view to general codification ;
President of the Arbitral Tribunal on the dispute between the Sopron-Kôszeg
Railway Company and Austria and Hungary ;
Vice-President of the Diplomatic Academy,
President of the Tenth Assembly of the League of Nations.
Chairman of the Third General Committee of the Conference on the Treatment
of Foreigners at Paris ;
Head of Delegation at the First Conference on the Codification of International
Law at The Hague.
R apporteur of the First Committee of the above Conference and member of its
Drafting Committee.
M. Julian d e l a H o z .
Former Under-Secretary for Public Instruction; former Attorney-General.
Mr. C harles C h en e y H y d e .
Professor of International Law at New York.
Mr. Philip J e s s u p .
Professor at the University of Columbia.
Mr. Frank B.
K ellogg.
Former Secretary of State; former Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Roscoe
P ound.
Born 1870; Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of H arvard ; Arbitrator
in 1925 in the British-American Pecuniary Claims Arbitration.
M. Joseph
R e d l ic h .
Doctor of Law; former Austrian Minister of Finance; former Professor at Vienna
University; Professor at H arvard University.
Mr. Jam es Brown
S cott.
Doctor of Law; Professor at the Foreign Service School, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.; former President of the Institute of International Law; T ru s t e e
of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, New York.
M. W alther
Sim o n s .
Former President of the Reichsgericht.
Mr. George
W . W ic k e r s h a m .
Former Attorney-General of the United States of America; Counsellor-at-Law.
Mr. John H.
W ig m o r e .
Dean of Northwestern University (Chicago).
Mr. George Grafton
W il s o n .
Professor at H arvard University.