HUDSON WRITES BOOK ABOUT WORLD COURT

"The Permanent Court of International Justice", a book by Professor Manley O. Hudson G. '10, Bemis Professor of International Law, has been announced for early publication by the University Press.

This will be the first book published in America concerning the organization of the New World Court. The first part deals with the establishment of the Court, its activities during each year since it began to function, and especially with the difficult subject of "advisory opinions". The second part presents the case for the American participation in maintaining the Court, as urged by the late President Harding, President Coolidge, and Secretary of State Hughes. The appendix contains documents illustrating the history of the movement to establish the Court.

Since President Harding's original proposal of the Court on February 24, 1923, Professor Hudson has been recognized as one of its most active and prominent backers. In the fight that led to its foundation he was ever to the fore.

Professor Hudson was a member of the Legal Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, while the Statute of the Court was being drafted in 1920 and while the judges were being elected in 1921 and 1923. In the second part of his work he speaks not only as one of the Court's most enthusiastic supporters, but as a student who has had unusual opportunities to study it in operation from close range.

Other books on the announcement list of the University Press are "Men and Policies" by ex-Secretary of State Elinu Root Hon. '07, "Getting a Laugh" by Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, and "Changing Ireland" by Norreys J. O'Conor '07.