Mr. Miller is a specialist in international law. He was associated 

 with the "Inquiry, " a group of experts organized to gather and pre- 

 pare information for use at the Peace Conference, and was attached 

 as legal adviser to Colonel House's Mission in Paris in 1918, 

 subsequently becoming legal adviser to the American Commis- 

 sion to Negotiate Peace. With Sir Cecil Hurst of the British Foreign 

 Office he drew up the final draft of the Covenant of the League of 

 Nations. In 1921 he was counsel to the German Government on 

 Upper Silesian questions. Among his many publications may be 

 noted: "The International Regime of Ports, Waterways, and 

 Railways" (Amer. Journ. of Internatl. Latv, Vol. 13, 1919) ; " Reserva- 

 tions to Treaties, Their Effect, and Their Procedure in Regard 

 Thereto," 1919; "International Relations of Labor," New York, 

 1 921; "Opinion on the Question of Upper Silesia Written at the 

 Request of the Government of Germany," New York, 1921; "The 

 Geneva Protocol, " New York, 1925; " Political Rights in the Arctic" 

 {Foreign Affairs, Vol. 4, 1925), of which the first part of the present 

 article is a modified reprint. 



