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foreign and domestic, bearing upon international law, includ- 

 ing therein treaties, information relating to arbitration, 

 announcements of national policy, and diplomatic corre- 

 spondence ; 



(d) By issuing in the form of law reports judgments of national 

 courts involving questions of international law, the sen- 

 tences of arbitral tribunals and the awards of mixed com- 

 missions. 



The subject of the study of international law was considered in very 

 great detail at a conference of American teachers of international law, 

 held at the city of Washington in the month of April, 1914, under the 

 auspices of the American Society of International Law. Forty-one 

 institutions of learning of the United States accepted the invitation to 

 be present and sent accredited representatives to take part in the pro- 

 ceedings. 



The result was a series of recommendations, unanimously adopted by 

 the conference, which form the basis of the present articles relating to 

 the study of the law of nations, with omissions and other modifications 

 in order to make the recommendations apply to the Republics of the 

 American continent instead of applying solely to the Republic of the 

 North in which the conference of teachers was held. 



In an article written by the Honorable EUHU ROOT when Secretary 

 of State, and published as the introduction to the first number of the 

 American Journal of International Law in 1907, he called attention to the 

 conditions required for the settlement of international disputes without 

 resort to war, stating that the people of the countries involved should 

 be able to weigh the controversy and to appreciate the action of their 

 representatives in an instructed and reasonable way, and stating also 

 that one means of bringing about this instructed and reasonable way 

 was by means of a wider and broader knowledge of the principles of inter- 

 national law and by the creation of an international habit on the part 

 of the people of reading and thinking about international matters. The 

 language of Mr. ROOT on this point is, if possible, the more important, 

 as when uttering it he was speaking under the responsibility of office, 

 shortly after his return from his visit to Latin America. It therefore 

 seems advisable to quote two paragraphs from the article as a general 

 introduction to this section of the report: 



In the great business of settling international controversies without war' 

 whether it be by negotiation or arbitration, essential conditions are reason- 

 ableness and good temper, a willingness to recognize facts and to weigh 

 arguments which make against one's own country as well as those which 

 make for one's own country; and it is very important that in every country 



