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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nor on the basis of reciprocity. This was left\nfor decision at San Francisco.\nThe provisions in the statute authorizing the\nAssembly and the Council of the League of Nations\nto call upon the Court for advisory opinions has\nbeen retained as was contemplated by the Dumbarton\nOaks Proposal, substituting the General Assembly\nand the Security Council of the new organization\nfor the comparable bodies of the League.\nThere was a wide difference of view in the\nCommittee on the question of the nomination of the\njudges. At present the nominations are made by the\nrepresentatives of the various countries on the\npanel of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at\nThe Hague under a convention of 1907 and by similar\ngroups set up for that purpose by countries that\nare not parties to The Hague convention. There was\nconsiderable support in the Committee for having\nthese nominations made directly by the respective\ngovernments. This question remains open for dis-\ncussion in San Francisco.\nThe Committee suggested the incorporation in\nthe statute of an article designed to facilitate\nfuture amendments.\nI am happy to say that the jurists demonstrated\nthroughout their work a spirit of earnestness and\ncomplete cooperation.\n: ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE^ SEVERAGE ARD"
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