THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CraiMs AGAINST GERMANY
In dealing with the alien property fund Congress, while fully
recognizing the historic policy of the United States, holding immune
from confiscation enemy private property in time of war, should
have in mind at all times its obligations, no less sacred, toward
American nationals who suffered loss and injury through the aggres-
sion of Germany during the late war.
Congress should accord to Germany full faith and credit for free
and voluntary action on its part in entering into the Treaty of Berlin
for the restoration of friendly relations with the United States, and
to that end should retain possession of the alien property fund, in
accordance with the explicit terms of that treaty, until Germany
shall have made suitable provision for the satisfaction of all such
American claims. (Resolution, Thirteenth Annual Meeting, 1925.)
INTERNATIONAL Economic CONFERENCE
The annual meeting joins with the recent session of the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce in recognizing that the continued
economic disorder in a large part of the world is not only an obstacle
to the establishment of permanent peace, elimination of unemploy-
ment, and restoration of normal living conditions, but also contains
the menace of still further unhappy developments. There should
be a just solution of these problems with the least possible delay.
The belief expressed by the International Chamber, that there
should be a general economic conference of the nations interested
for the final adjustment of these problems, we also share, and we
extend assurance that, so far as an American business organization
may find opportunity for usefulness in supporting the plan. of the
International Chamber to prepare the way for an economic confer-
ence, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States will lend its
assistance to the full extent of its power. (Resolution, Eleventh
Annual Meeting, 1923.)
Court OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
The United States by tradition and practice stands and always
has stood committed to the promotion of international justice
through the process of the peaceful solution of controversies rather
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