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Back into the Senate bullpen President Hoover last week tossed the World Court.∙ Senators were astonished. The President asked for its consideration at this session "as soon as possible after the emergency relief and appropriation legislation has been disposed of." Then he invited in for luncheon Elder Statesman Elihu Root, who negotiated the formula for U. S. adherence to the Court, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, Mr. Root's legal disciple and political protege...
...World Court action by the U. S.: 1923, submitted to the Senate by President Harding; 1926, ratified (76-10-17) with five reservations; 1928, Reservation No. 5 rejected by other powers; President Coolidge said he would not ask the Senate to change its position but later approved Elder Statesman Elihu Root's going to Geneva as an unofficial negotiator; 1929, Root Formula framed, approved by World Court nations; U. S. signed revised protocols at Geneva; President Hoover rammed the protocols into a pigeonhole awaiting an auspicious moment to send them to the Senate for ratification...
...present follows: Dr. Thomas Barbour '06. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow '01, director, Dr. William Bowie, Dr. E. G. Conklin '26, Mr. Newcomb Carlton, Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar '95, Dr. Frank R. Lillie, president. Dr. John C. Merriam, Mr. Seward D. Prosser, Mr. Lawrason Riggs, Jr. '15, treasurer, Mr. Elihu Root, Jr. '06, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dr. T. O. Wayland Vaughan '93. The by-laws provide for an increase in the number of trustees up to twenty-four...
Submission of the World Court protocols would have been useless had not elder Statesman Elihu Root last year gone as President Hoover's unofficial representative to Geneva. There he rephrased the U. S. Senate's objectionable "Reservation V" so that it fell more politely and acceptably upon foreign ears. The paraphrase since has become famed as "The Root Formula." It will be submitted by the President to the Senate in lieu of "Reservation V." It amounts to this: Whenever the World Court, with the U. S. as a member, is asked to opine on any question...
...Elihu Root...