Nominations

The first nine-year term of the 15 Judges (eleven full, four deputy) of the World Court will expire in December. Nominations were in order last week for their successors. They came thick and fast, from 42 countries, with only 13, including the U. S., still to be heard from. Included were the names of six U. S. citizens:

Nominee Nominated by

Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School Australia, Great Britain, Siam.

Elihu Root, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State. Nicaragua

James Brown Scott, onetime Major and Judge Advocate of the U. S. Army. Cuba

Frank Billings Kellogg, President Coolidge's Secretary of State. Denmark

George Woodward Wickersham, President Taft's Attorney General. France

John Henry Wigmore, Dean of the Northwestern University law faculty. Santo Domingo

An additional list of ten U. S. citizens was nominated to complete the term of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes who retired from the World Court seven months ago:

Nominee Nominated by

Newton Diehl Baker, President Wilson's Secretary of War. Siam

Roland William Boyden, onetime unofficial Representative of the U. S. with the Reparations Commission. Austria

Charles Cheney Hyde, President Harding's Solicitor for the State Department. The Netherlands

Philip Jessup, Columbia University Professor. Switzerland

Frank Billings Kellogg. Denmark, Norway, Uruguay.

Dean Roscoe Pound. Australia, Germany Great Britain.

James Brown Scott. Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Jugoslavia.

George Woodward Wickersham. France, Sweden, Switzerland.

John Henry Wigmore. Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Portugal.

George Grafton Wilson, U. S. delegate plenipotentiary to the International Naval Conference (1908-09). Norway

Electors of the permanent judges, who will vote at the same time for the Hughes successor, are the members of the League of Nations council and assembly at Geneva.

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