When, last September, I accepted the invitation to visit the United States, I was, to a large extent, guided by your advice. In fact, your letter to the Vice-Chancellor left me with no doubt that it was my duty to go. This being so, perhaps you will not regard it as inappropriate if I submit through you this report on some aspects of my visit which the authorities may find of interest.

In accepting the invitation I had three objects in mind:

(1) I thought that I ought to avail myself of the opportunity of influencing opinion by lecturing on current topics of international law and relations and of establishing other kinds of contact with university faculties, law schools, foreign policy groups, associations of lawyers, and so on, especially in the part of the United States in which such contact appeared to me to be particularly necessary, namely, in the Middle West.

(2) I believed that I ought to try to use the opportunity of having conversations with teachers of international law in the leading universities in the United States. For various reasons these have tended in recent years to assume a somewhat pronounced isolationist attitude, and it appeared to me that their standing justified an attempt to influence their attitude. […]