PEREZ 



of Public Instruction he has recently under- 

 taken the work of organizing the classifi- 

 cation and cataloguing of the National 

 Library of Cuba. 



He has contributed articles on historical, 

 social, and political questions to the Pub- 

 lications of the Southern History Association, 

 Washington, 1907; Pro-Cuba, Havana, 

 May and June, 191 1 (only issues pub- 

 lished); La Reforma Social, Cuba Contem- 

 pordnea, El Figaro, and others. At the 

 annual meetings of the Cuban society of 

 international law, 191 7, 1918, and 1919, he 

 has read papers on the Sovereignty of 

 Cuba, Justice as a Principle of International 

 Law, and the Self-determination of the 

 Small Nationalities, respectively. 



He was one of the organizers of the 

 "Fundacion Luz Caballero," an influential 

 educational and patriotic association, and 

 of the Pure Suffrage League ("Liga protec- 

 tora del sufragio "). He was the chief ini- 

 tiator, in 191 7, of the Liga nacional de propa- 

 ganda economic a. which, after a short agita- 

 tion in favor of the domestic production of all 

 necessary foodstuffs, discontinued its labors. 



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