Alternate Member of the American Section of the Committee: Howard Technical Assistants to the American Section of the Committee: Secretary and Interpreter for the American Section of the Committee: Arthur L. Lebel, of Massachusetts, Department of State. The Sessions of both the Committee and the Third Commission were attended by representatives of the following countries: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United States of America. The sessions of the Third Commission were held from September 20 to September 23, inclusive. The major subject discussed was the insurance provisions under articles XII and XIV of the convention signed at Rome, May 19, 1933. Representatives of the International Air Traffic Association and the International Union of Aviation Insurers were given hearings, so that the problem might be discussed from the point of view of each interest concerned. The new insurance provisions resulting from these discussions are embodied in C.I.T.E.J.A.1 Document No. 273.2 It was decided that this document should be submitted to the Italian Government through the French Government. The plenary sessions of the Committee ran from September 24 to September 27, inclusive. The major questions discussed were the legal consequences of salvage by and of aircraft and of aerial collisions. The salvage convention was first amended to refer to salvage at sea only and later considered in detail. The revised draft is embodied in C.I.T.E.J.A. Document No. 276.2 The aerial collision convention was then discussed and amended, the revised draft being embodied in C.I.T.E.J.A. Document No. 272. At the end of the plenary sessions of the Committee the American Delegation made a proposal that the question of languages to be used in discussions at future sessions, and in the texts resulting therefrom, be studied from the administrative and budgetary standpoint. The Committee decided, however, that this was not within 1 The initials of the French name of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, "Comité International Technique d'Experts Juridiques Aériens". 2 Copies of this document are on record at the Department of State, as well as copies of the minutes and other documents published by the Committee. the scope of its jurisdiction, and the proposal was not considered at that time. It was decided that the next meeting of the several Commissions should be held in Paris, France, in February 1936 and that the next meeting of the full Committee should be held in September 1936. This was the first time that the United States Government was officially represented at a meeting of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts. THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ARCHITECTS Delegates: (Rome, Italy, September 22-28, 1935) Stephen Francis Voorhees, President, The American Institute of Architects, New York, New York, Chairman of the Delegation; Chester Holmes Aldrich, Litt.D., New York, New York; Arthur Brown, Jr., LL.D., San Francisco, California; 1 1 J. Monroe Hewlett, New York, New York; . 1 Twenty countries were represented by 47 official delegates, and a total of 360 persons attended the Congress in either official or unofficial capacities. The agenda of the Congress consisted of the following topics: (1) Design and production of new materials and results obtained from their use; (2) Information useful to architects, officials, and professional men in the study of public buildings and city-regulation plans, which include plans for buildings, bridges, roads, stations, etc., and which contribute to the general esthetic effect as at present understood; (3) Examination of means by which architects can make known the advantage of utilizing their services direct, without employing intermediaries such as construction companies; (4) The standardization of collective dwellings; (5) Subterranean construction, circulation, and protection; (6) The protection of general conceptions of projects, and the right of architects to supervise construction; (7) Contests in architecture and construction of a public character. Seventy-six papers dealing with the above-mentioned subjects were presented and discussed; and at the last business session a series of resolutions growing out of the discussions was presented and adopted. The next Congress will be held in Paris, France, in the summer of 1937. Full information concerning the proceedings of the Congress, including the texts of the resolutions adopted, may be obtained from The American Institute of Architects, The Octagon House, 1741 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C. TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE HISTORY Delegates: (Madrid, Spain, September 22-29, 1935) Major Edgar Erskine Hume, Medical Corps, United States Army, Chairman of the Delegation;1 Howard Dittrick, M.D., School of Medicine, Western Reserve' University, Cleveland, Ohio. Edward B. Krumbhaar, M.D., Ph.D., School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvanią, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The following subjects were among those discussed at the Congress: (1) Arab medicine in Spain; (2) American medicine during the period of discovery and colonization; (3) Medical folklore in civilized countries; (4) Miscellaneous topics dealing with the history of such medical subjects as: (a) Surgery; (b) Hospitalization; (c) Dermatology; (d) Treatment; (e) Pharmacy; (f) Medical societies. Over 400 official delegates were present at the Congress from 34 countries. As this is the only international gathering of medical Did not attend. historians, the Congress was considered important in furthering the increase and diffusion of knowledge of medical history and in promoting international understanding and good-will. The publication of the proceedings of the Congress may be obtained from the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, Madrid, Spain. NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS Delegates: (Rome, Italy, September 23-29, 1935) William F. Albright, Ph.D., President of the American Oriental Society, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Chairman of the Delegation; James H. Breasted, Ph.D., Director, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; W. Norman Brown, Ph.D., Editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1 Richard J. Gottheil, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, New York; Nathaniel J. Reich, Dropsie College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Conference was attended by representatives from the following countries: Afghanistan, Belgium, China, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, and United States of America. The Congress devoted practically all of its attention to the presentation of papers dealing with the various fields of its activity, which include the ancient and modern history, literature, culture, and religion of Asia, Africa, and Indonesia. More than 180 papers were presented in the following 10 sections: (1) Assyriology; (2) North African studies and Egyptology; (3) Eastern Asiatic and Indonesian studies; (4) Iranian, Turkish, and Central Asiatic studies; (5) Indology; (6) Semitic studies; (7) Biblical studies; (8) Islamic studies; (9) Christian, Oriental, and Byzantine studies; (10) Asiatic art. 1 Did not attend. The official publication of the Congress, which will include short abstracts of papers, lists of delegates, and other pertinent data, will be published by the Secretariat of the Congress at the Royal University of Rome, Via della Sapienza. The next Congress will be held in Brussels, Belgium, in 1938 or 1939. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF RURAL ENGINEERING (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 3, 1935) Delegate: Niels I. Nielsen, of California, Agricultural Attaché, American Embassy, Paris. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Commission of Rural Engineering. The following countries were represented by official delegates: Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America, and Uruguay. The Congress was divided into the following four sections: (1) Science of soil, agricultural hydraulics, and rural-estate management; (2) Rural constructions; (3) Agricultural machinery and uses of electricity in agricul ture; (4) Scientific management of work in agriculture. At the sectional meetings papers were read and discussed by the delegates. Recommendations were made by the sections that experiments in particular subjects be continued with the idea of presenting the results at the next Congress. These recommendations pertained to the methods of determining the properties of soils, the construction of canals for drainage and irrigation, the construction of dairy barns, pigsties, stables, and poultry houses, and the increased use of electricity on farms. It was also proposed that all the important results of experiments in regard to the use and efficiency of agricultural machinery be collected for the purpose of publishing an international report. A number of resolutions were adopted by the Congress. Information concerning these resolutions may be obtained from the Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the Congress, Mr. E. Aranda Heredia, Amadeo Vives 10, Madrid (12), Spain. The date and place of the Third Congress will be determined by the International Commission of Rural Engineering. |