Brigadier General Glen E. Edgerton, Corps of Engineers, United States Army; Governor, Panama Canal, Canal Zone; Colonel Charles L. Hall, United States Army, Resident Member, Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Department of War; Secretary; 34 Brigadier General Charles Keller, United States Army, retired, Winnetka, Illinois; Roy Miller, Active Vice President of the Intracoastal Canal Association of Louisiana and Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; J. Spencer Smith, President of the State Board of Commerce and Navigation of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey; Commander W. H. Smith, Civil Engineering Corps, United States Navy; Colonel Gordon R. Young, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, Panama Canal Department, Corozal, Canal Zone. PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL American Members: Colonel Spencer Cosby; Brigadier General Charles Keller. The Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses was organized as a result of the action taken by the International Congress on Inland Navigation, which met at The Hague in 1894, in merging that Congress with the Maritime Works Congress, which had held meetings in Paris in 1889 and in London in 1893. At the Eighth International Navigation Congress, held in Paris in 1900, the Permanent International Commission of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses was formed. This Commission, which has its seat at Brussels, is the governing body of the Association. The executive committee of the Commission is composed of two presidents and a general secretary selected by the Commission. The organization also includes a Permanent Council composed of representatives from the governments contributing to the support of the Association. The Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses has as its object the promotion of inland and maritime navigation by means of organized international congresses. To this end the congresses have discussed regularization and canalization of 34 Colonel Hall was appointed on March 13, 1941 to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Colonel Raymond A. Wheeler, United States Army, who had been the Resident Member of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Department of War. 434299-42 streams and rivers; canals; locks; dams; reservoir dams; electric traction; production of electrical energy; international ports, administration of port facilities; coordination of port and railway facilities; drydocks and shipyards; free ports; buoys and light signals; dredging; combustible liquids and navigation, etc.; and laboratory experiments of significance to navigation, etc. The Commission maintains a central information bureau for collecting and disseminating information of importance to its members and for assisting in the development of a technical dictionary of navigation terminology and a collection of current reports, documents, and periodicals relating to the science of navigation. It has also undertaken the publication of information concerning river and harbor improvement and development, and of related subjects. Since the year 1902 the Government of the United States has contributed an annual sum toward the expenses of the Association, the appropriations therefor being carried in the regular appropriations for the Department of War. Authorization for these appropriations was contained in an act of Congress approved June 28, 1902 (32 Stat. 485). UNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON INTER-AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION (Resolution of the Seventh International Conference of American States, 1933 *5) Members: John W. Studebaker, LL.D., Commissioner, United States Office of Education, Federal Security Agency; Chairman; Frank Aydelotte, LL.D., D. Litt., D.C.L., Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Albert L. Barrows, Ph. D., Executive Secretary, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.; Harry Yandell Benedict, Ph. D., LL.D., Former President, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Isaiah Bowman, Ph. D., Sc. D., LL.D., President, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Laurence Vail Coleman, Director, American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C.; Stephen Pierce Duggan, Ph. D., LL.D., Litt. D., Director, Institute of International Education, New York, New York; Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Ph. D., Litt. D., LL.D., L.H.D., Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University, New York, New York; 35 'See Conference Series 19 and 20. Cecil K. Jones, In charge, Hispanic Catalogue, Hispanic Foundation, Library of Congress; 36 John Campbell Merriam, Ph. D., Sc. D., LL.D., President Emeri tus, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, California; The Reverend W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., Ph. D., D.D., LL.D., Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett Park, Maryland; Raye R. Platt, Research Associate, American Geographical Society, New York, New York; James Brown Scott, J.U.D., Secretary Emeritus, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.; Robert Gordon Sproul, LL.D., Litt. D., President, University of California, Berkeley, California; John James Tigert, LL.D., Ed. D., D.C.L., L.H.D., D. Litt., President, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; The Very Reverend Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Ph. D., LL.D., D. Litt., Vice President, Georgetown University; Regent, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; Henry B. Ward, Ph. D., Sc. D., LL.D., Professer Emeritus of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Mary Wilhelmine Williams, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus of History, Goucher College, residing at Palo Alto, California. The United States National Committee on Inter-American Intellectual Cooperation was organized as a result of a resolution adopted at the Seventh International Conference of American States, which met in Montevideo, Uruguay, in December 1933. The Committee, which cooperates with the Pan American Union, has for its purpose the promotion of measures which will facilitate scientific and technical interchange among the American countries for the advancement of the cultural level of the Western Hemisphere. GOVERNING BOARD OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION " (Resolutions of the First International Conference of American States, 1889-90, and subsequent conferences) Offices: Washington, D.C. United States Member: Cordell Hull, LL.D., L.H.D., Secretary of State; Chairman of the Governing Board of the Union. * Mr. Jones retired as Chief, Classification Division, Library of Congress, on September 30, 1940. 27 For an account of the origin and functions of the Pan American Union, see post, p. 76. PAN AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES (Resolutions of the Third and Seventh International Conferences of American States, 1906 and 1933) Members of the National Committee: Spruille Braden, LL.D., New York, New York, Chairman; Isaiah Bowman, Ph. D., Sc. D., LL.D., Baltimore, Maryland; Stephen Pierce Duggan, Ph. D., LL.D., Litt. D., New York, New York; James W. Gerard, LL.D., New York, New York; Joseph P. Grace, New York, New York; John L. Merrill, New York, New York; Henry Morgenthau, Sr., LL.D., New York, New York; The Most Reverend John F. O'Hara, C.S.C., D.D., New York, New York; Frank L. Polk, D.C.L., LL.D., New York, New York; George Grafton Wilson, Ph. D., LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Executive Committee of the National Committee: Spruille Braden, Chairman; Sophonisba P. Breckinridge. The Pan American Committee was first organized in accordance with a resolution adopted at the Third International Conference of American States, which met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1906, and resolutions for the continuance of the Committee have been adopted by succeeding conferences. Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Seventh International Conference of American States (Conference Series 19 and 20), which was held at Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933, the Pan American Committee of the United States was reorganized in September 1935. The National Pan American Committees are composed of persons who are actually interested in the inter-American conferences and who, therefore, may be expected to encourage their respective governments to adopt measures in line with the conventions and resolutions adopted at the conferences. The Committees may further be expected to foster any movement which has as its object the improvement of inter-American relations. PAN AMERICAN RAILWAY COMMITTEE (Resolutions of the First and Fifth International Conferences of American States, 1889-90 and 1923) Offices: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Central Committee: Juan A. Briano, of Argentina, Chairman; Estanislau Bosquet, of Brazil; Francisco P. de Hoyos, of Mexico; Verne LeRoy Havens, of the United States of America; Gabriel Quirós, of Chile; Jorge Triana, of Colombia. National Committee for the United States: Walter Moore, Birmingham, Alabama; The International Railway Commission was established in accordance with a resolution of the First International Conference of American States that met in Washington in 1889. This Commission was established for the purpose of determining the feasibility of an international railway from New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Commission made surveys, the results of which were published in seven volumes in 1898. The Fifth International Conference of American States, which met in Santiago, Chile, in 1923,38 authorized the reorganization of the Commission and named it the Pan American Railway Committee. As reorganized the Committee consists of a central committee of seven members and a national committee for each country through which the railway is to run. At the present time there is one vacancy on the Committee. The Committee has submitted a report to each of the conferences of American states held since its constitution and is continuing its efforts with a view to the eventual completion of the inter-American railway, of which approximately 7,000 miles have been constructed. PERMANENT COMMISSIONS OF INVESTIGATION AND CONCILIATION (Additional protocol of 1933 to the general convention of inter-American conciliation of 1929) American Commissioners: National: Edwin D. Dickinson, Ph. D., J.D., Dean of the School of Jurisprudence, University of California, Berkeley, California. Non-national: Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, of Chile. See Report of the Delegates of the United States of America (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923). |