HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD FEDERATION OF EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS This Government has accepted an invitation, transmitted by the Japanese Ambassador on behalf of the president of the Japanese Education Association, to participate in the Conference of the World Federation of Education Associations, which will be held at Tokyo, Japan, from August 2 to 7, 1937. The following persons have been appointed delegates on the part of the United States: Dr. J. Anton de Haas, William Ziegler professor of international Miss Elizabeth R. McCormick, principal, Timothy O. Howe Miss Ruth F. Lewis, head of the English Department, Radford Mr. William Alonzo James, principal, Ball High School, Miss Margaret A. Hensleigh, member, Harper High School Miss Edna Lowry, president, Union Normal College, Sai Tsuen, The World Federation of Education Associations was founded in 1923, and its membership is made up of the National Education Associations of most of the countries of the world. The National Education Association of the United States is a member, as are various State organizations throughout the country. SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC INSTRUCTION This Government has accepted the invitation of the Swiss Government to participate in the Sixth International Conference on Public Instruction, which will convene at Geneva, Switzerland, on July 19, 1937. The following persons have been appointed delegates on the part of the United States: Dr. Frederick J. Kelly, Chief, Division of Higher Education, United States Office of Education, Department of the Interior Dr. George F. Zook, Ph. D., President, American Council on This Conference will be held under the auspices of the International Bureau of Education, an organization formed with the purpose of attempting to provide the widest possible dissemination of information on educational reform and initiating scientific research in this sphere. While the United States is not a member of the Bureau, it was represented at the Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on Public Instruction. CONVENTION CONCERNING PEACEFUL ORIENTATION OF PUBLIC Nicaragua INSTRUCTION 1 The American Legation at Managua reported by a telegram dated June 14, 1937, that the Nicaraguan Government had ratified on June 11, 1937, the convention concerning peaceful orientation of public instruction, signed on December 23, 1936, at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace held at Buenos Aires. CONVENTION CONCERNING FACILITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL AND Nicaragua PUBLICITY FILMS 2 The American Legation at Managua reported by a telegram dated June 14, 1937, that the Nicaraguan Government had ratified on June 11, 1937, the convention concerning facilities for educational and publicity films, signed at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936. CONVENTION FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTER-AMERICAN CULTURAL RELATIONS Nicaragua By a telegram dated June 14, 1937, the American Minister at Managua reported that the Government of Nicaragua had ratified on June 11, 1937, the convention for the promotion of inter-American cultural relations, signed at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936. United States On June 29, 1937, the Senate gave its advice and consent to the ratification by the President of the convention for the promotion of 1 For text, see Bulletin No. 90, March 1937, p. 25. 2 For text, see ibid., p. 27. For text, see Bulletin No. 89, February 1937, p. 29. inter-American cultural. relations, signed at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936. EXTRADITION CONVENTION ON EXTRADITION (TREATY SERIES, No. 882)* Nicaragua The American Minister at Managua transmitted to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated June 15, 1937, a copy of La Gaceta (no. 122), of June 11, 1937, which publishes the decree whereby the convention on extradition, signed at the Seventh International Conference of American States, Montevideo, December 26, 1933, is ratified by Nicaragua. The decree was signed by the President on May 24, 1937. EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND LIECHTENSTEIN 5 The American Minister to Switzerland reported by a telegram dated June 29, 1937, that the exchange of ratifications of the extradition treaty between the United States and Liechtenstein, signed on May 20, 1936, took place at Bern on June 28, 1937. The treaty entered into effect upon the exchange of ratifications and will remain in force for a period of 5 years and indefinitely thereafter until the expiration of 1 year from the day on which one of the parties denounces it. HEALTH FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE This Government has accepted an invitation, transmitted by the British Government on behalf of the Royal Sanitary Institute, to participate in the Forty-eighth Congress of the Institute, which will be held at Birmingham, England, from July 12 to 17, 1937. Medical Director Hugh de Valin, United States Public Health Service, has been appointed delegate on the part of the United States. The Royal Sanitary Institute is a British organization which convenes annual congresses for the purpose of considering practically every branch of public health and sanitation. Many foreign governments are represented at these meetings, and the United States has participated in them for a number of years. 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3111; see also Bulletin No. 89, February 1937, p. 11. See Bulletin No. 92, May 1937, p. 15. 6 See Bulletin No. 68, May 1935, p. 7. FIFTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION This Government has accepted the invitation of the French Government to participate in the Fifth Conference of the International Hospital Association, which will be held at Paris, France, from July 6 to 11, 1937. The following persons have been appointed delegates on the part of the United States: Medical Director Claude C. Pierce, United States Public Health Dr. Martin Cooley, Medical and Hospital Service, Veterans' Dr. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Professor of Public The International Hospital Association convenes biennial conferences, at which questions ranging from hospital construction to public relations of hospitals are discussed, and the reports of 10 permanent Commissions of Inquiry established by the Association are received and reviewed. The Association also maintains, in collaboration with the League of Red Cross Societies, a central information bureau. Although this Government is not a member of the Association, it has been represented at three of the four previous congresses. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MENTAL HYGIENE This Government has accepted the invitation of the French Government to participate in the Second International Congress of Mental Hygiene, which will be held at Paris, France, from July 19 to 24, 1937. The following persons have been appointed official delegates on the part of the United States: Asst. Surg. Gen. Walter L. Treadway, United States Public Mr. Clifford W. Beers, secretary, National Committee for Mental Dr. Martin Cooley, Medical and Hospital Service, Veterans' Dr. Walter Miles, Institute of Human Relations, Yale Univer- Medical Director Claude C. Pierce, United States Public Health Dr. Arthur Ruggles, president, National Committee for Mental The purpose of the Congress is to correlate the special knowledge and experience of psychiatrist, psychologist, occupational therapist, public administrator, educator, sociologist, and those of related professions in determining how best to care for and treat the mentally sick, to prevent mental illness, and to conserve mental health. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE Afghanistan According to a circular letter from the League of Nations dated May 26, 1937, the instrument of adherence by Afghanistan to the convention for the suppression of the circulation of and traffic in obscene publications, signed September 12, 1923, was deposited with the Secretariat on May 10, 1937. T See Bulletin No. 79, April 1936, p. 13. |