Letter Authorizing the Signature of Documents of Accession to the Permanent Court of International Justice.

[Released December 8, 1929. Dated November 26, 1929]

My dear Mr. Secretary:

I have received your note of November 18th, analyzing the situation created by the almost unanimous signature on the part of the Members [p.465] of the Permanent Court of International Justice to the Protocol of Accession of the United States of America and to the Protocol of Revision of the Statute, and in accordance with the request contained therein, I authorize you to make the necessary arrangements for the signature on behalf of the United States on December 9th, 1929, of

1. The protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice,

2. The protocol of Accession of the United States of America to the Protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and

3. The protocol of Revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice.

For this purpose, I am enclosing the full powers authorizing Mr. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the United States at Berne, to sign these documents.

Yours faithfully,

HERBERT HOOVER

[The Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.]