SECTION I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PARTICIPATED, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF AMERICAN DELEGATES AND SUMMARIES OF THE PROCEEDINGS EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MILITARY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY Delegates: (Brussels, Belgium, June 27-July 3, 1935) Major General Robert U. Patterson, United States Army, Chairman of the Delegation; Captain William Seaman Bainbridge, Medical Reserve Corps, Colonel Harold D. Corbusier, Medical Reserve, United States Colonel Francis E. Fronczak, Medical Reserve, United States Army, Buffalo, New York; Major General Harry L. Gilchrist, United States Army, retired, Washington, D.C.; Charles M. Griffith, of Tennessee, Medical Director, United States Veterans' Administration; Major Edgar Erskine Hume, Medical Corps, United States Army (also Secretary of the Delegation); Commander W. Howard Michael, Medical Corps, United States Navy; Lieutenant Commander Julius F. Neuberger, Medical Corps, United States Navy; Claude C. Pierce, of Tennessee, Medical Director, United States Public Health Service, in Supervisory Charge of Service Activities in Europe, American Embassy, Paris; Rear Admiral James C. Pryor, United States Navy, retired, Brooklyn, New York. Thirty-three countries were officially represented at the Congress and 550 persons attended its sessions either as delegates of their 1 governments or representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the League of Red Cross Societies, or the Belgian Red Cross. The agenda of the Congress included six questions for discussion and consideration. These questions were as follows: (1) The principles of organization and the function of the medical services in mountain warfare; (2) The determination of aptitude for the various specialties in armies, navies, and air forces; (3) Study of the sequelae of wounds of the abdomen; (4) Researches looking to the unification of methods of analysis (6) A comparative study of the duties of the medical adminis- Conclusions were adopted on each of the six questions. Information concerning these conclusions and all of the publications of the Congress are available in the Army Medical Library at Washington, D.C. The next meeting of the Congress will be held at Bucharest, Rumania, in 1937. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH-TENSION ELECTRIC SYSTEMS (Paris, France, June 27-July 6, 1935) Delegate: Frederic Attwood, Vice President, Ohio Brass Company, New York, New York. This Conference was the eighth of the series held under the sponsorship of the International Conference on High-Tension Electric Systems, an organization created in 1921 under the auspices of the International Electro-technical Commission. The next session of the Conference is scheduled tentatively to be held in Paris in June 1937. More than 150 papers were presented and discussed during the sessions of the Conference. These papers have been published and may be obtained upon application to the Conference Internationale des Grandes Reseaux Electriques, 54 avenue Marceaux, Paris, 16o. Delegates: FOURTEENTH SESSION OF THE JOURNÉES MÉDICALES DE BRUXELLES (Brussels, Belgium, June 29-July 3, 1935) Major Edgar Erskine Hume, Medical Corps, United States Army; Claude C. Pierce, of Tennessee, Medical Director, United States Public Health Service, in Supervisory Charge of Service Activities in Europe, American Embassy, Paris. The Fourteenth Session of the Journées Médicales de Bruxelles was originally scheduled to have been held in June 1934 but was postponed until 1935 because of the death of the King of the Belgians. The Fourteenth Session was held concurrently with the sessions of the Eighth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy,1 and the American delegates to the Journées Médicales de Bruxelles were also numbered among the delegates to the Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy. Delegates: 2 CHACO PEACE CONFERENCE (Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 1, 1935—) Hugh Gibson, of California, American Ambassador to Brazil; The Conference was convened on July 1, 1935 at the call of the President of Argentina, in accordance with the provisions of the protocol of June 12, 1935, which brought about a cessation of hostilities and set forth a method of procedure for the settlement of matters in dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia. The mediatory nations represented at the Conference are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, United States of America, and Uruguay. Dr. Carlos Saavedra 1 See p. 2 1 of this publication. Allan Dawson, of Iowa, Second Secretary, American Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, acted as assistant to the American delegates for several months. Captain Frederick Dent Sharp, former Military Attaché at Buenos Aires, Major John A. Weeks, Military Attaché at Santiago, Chile, and Lieutenant Colonel Lester D. Baker, Military Attaché at Buenos Aires, have served as representatives of the United States of America on various special commissions appointed by the Conference to supervise the cessation of hostilities, the demobilization of the Bolivian and Paraguayan armies, the exchange of prisoners of war, and the maintenance of security measures. Lamas, Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, is Chairman of the Conference. Demobilization was carried out according to schedule under the supervision of the Neutral Military Commission appointed by the Conference. The Commission made its final report on October 18, 1935, and a Peace Conference resolution of October 28, 1935 declared the war at an end. A protocol signed on January 21, 1936 provides that the two parties agree upon the maintenance of the security measures of the protocol of June 12, 1935 until a definitive treaty of peace is signed and provides also for the complete exchange of prisoners of war and for a renewal of diplomatic relations between the two countries as soon as possible. A Special Repatriation Commission supervised the exchange of prisoners of war. The Conference is devoting its attention to the question of the maintenance of security measures and to a study of the fundamental territorial issue. MEETING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF A CONVENTION FOR FACILITATING THE CUSTOMS TREATMENT OF COMMERCIAL SAMPLES AND ADVERTISING MATTER Representatives: (Geneva, Switzerland, July 1-4, 1935) Erwin G. May, of Colorado, United States Treasury Representative, Berlin; Douglas P. Miller, of the District of Columbia, Acting Commercial Attaché, American Embassy, Berlin. In addition to the United States of America, the following countries were represented at the meeting: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland. The meeting was convened under the auspices of the Economic Committee of the League of Nations, to consider a draft international convention for the purpose of liberalizing customs procedure applicable to samples and advertising matter in international trade. As a result of this meeting the representatives agreed to recommend to their respective governments the adoption of a draft convention, the main provisions of which may be summarized as follows: (1) The contracting parties agree to exempt from import duty, samples of goods, provided that they have no commercial value and can only be used for soliciting orders, demon |