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The Personnel of International Administration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Norman L. Hill*
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University of Nebraska

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Notes on International Affairs
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1929

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1 This is generally true of extradition conventions which refer to “judges,” “magistrates,” “officers of the surrendering government,” “legal officers of the state where proceedings are had,” and in other terminology make mention of the regular officers of the states concerned. See United States treaties with Costa Rica (1922), Venezuela (1922), Siam (1922), Latvia (1903), in Treaty Series (U. S.), Nos. 668, 675, 681, 677.

2 Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements between the United States and Other Powers, Vol. 3, p. 3088Google Scholar.

3 Treaties, Conventions, etc., Vol. 3, p. 3774Google Scholar. Attention may De called to the fact also that most of the conventions drafted under the auspices of the League of Nations rely entirely upon national application. See British and Foreign State Papers, Vol. 116, pp. 517, 527Google Scholar; Vol. 119, pp. 568, 523, 548, for conventions dealing with navigable waterways, freedom of transit, maritime ports, railways, and the transmission of electric power, respectively.

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9 The texts of these mandates as defined by the Council of the League of Nations may be found in American Journal of International Law, Special Supplement, Vol. 17.

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16 British and Foreign State Papers, Vol. 112, p. 37Google Scholar, in regard to the Saar Basin Commission; and American Journal of International Law, Supplement, Vol. 17, p. 229Google Scholar, for a similar provision relative to the Elbe River Commission, as defined by the convention of 1922.

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28 Sly, J. F., “The Genesis of the Universal Postal Union,” International Conciliation, No. 233 (Oct., 1927), p. 57Google Scholar.

29 Congressional Directory, 70th Congress, 2nd Session (Jan. 1929), p. 320Google Scholar. They include the following: director-general, assistant director, counselor, foreign trade adviser, chief clerk, chief statistician, chief accountant, librarian, managing editor, two Spanish translators, Portuguese translator, chief mail clerk, secretary, chief of division of education, chief of division of finance.

30 Annuaire de la Vie Internationale (Brussels, 1912), pp. 417, 425426Google Scholar. In 1912 the Institute was composed of four services, which included staff members of eight defined grades, in addition to a number of employees.

31 Congressional Directory, 70th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 335. They include: honorary director, director, assistant director, vice director, secretary, scientific editor, and two travelling representatives.

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37 Ibid., p. 542. This is true in the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property.

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42 Ibid.

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44 Ibid., p. 1778.

45 Official Journal, 9th year, No. 11. Budget for 1929, pp. 1857–85. A list of officials and employees is given, together with their nationalities. After the admission of Germany to the League the Secretary-General announced the desirability of filling certain new posts to be created with Germans. See Official Journal, Special Supplement No. 42, p. 73.

47 Records of the Second Assembly: Report of the Special Committee on the Organization of the Secretariat, pp. 188.

48 Ibid., p. 189.

49 C. Howard-Ellis, op.cit., p. 195.

50 Ibid., pp. 196.

51 C. Howard-Ellis, op. cit., p. 196.

52 Records of the Second Assembly: Report of the Special Committee on the Organization of the Secretariat, pp. 189–190.

53 Ibid., p. 189.

54 Ibid., pp. 190–191.

55 Official Journal, Special Supplement 1–6: Resolutions Adopted by the Assembly during its First Session, p. 24.

56 Official Journal, 9th year, No. 5 (May, 1928), p. 751.

57 Official Journal, as cited, pp. 751–752.

58 Ibid., pp. 753–756.

59 Official Journal, Special Supplement 1–6: Resolutions of the First Assembly, p. 24.

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62 Ibid., pp. 1859, 1875.

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66 In the Secretariat the following officials receive such allowances under the provisions of the budget: Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General, and Under-Secretaries General. In the Labor Office, the Director and Deputy-Director are included. See Official Journal, 9th year, No. 11, pp. 1859, 1875.

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid., pp. 1808–1821.

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