When Viola so informed the Clown in Twelfth Night, was she prophetic of our nice dallying today with the word boycott? Have we made it wanton in applying it to foreign affairs? Let us see.

The Permanent Court of International Justice has settled down to continuous hard work. The experimental stage seems now to be passed, and though the revision of the Statute is still pending, the Court has entered upon a period in which attention is to be concentrated on its functioning from month to month. During 1932, the Court was in session for 240 days. The 23rd session, which began on November 5, 1931, and was broken by a recess from December 15,1931, to January 11,1932, was not concluded until February 4, 1932. The 24th session began on February 1, 1932, and was concluded on March 8,1932. The 25th session began on April 18,1932, and continued until August 11,1932.

The Pact of Paris is a short document but it has invoked a wealth of commentary. It was hoped that the Pact would be an effective preventive of violence, that governments would therefore not often be called upon to interpretit, and that consequently exposition of its meaning would be largely the task of jurists and publicists. This hope has not been entirely realized, to the misfortune of the world, but at least the international jurists have a more positive grist to grind in their elucidations.

The work of the recent claims commissions between Mexico and various other states constitutes an important body of material for the development of international adjudication. The revolutionary disturbances in Mexico between 1910 and 1920 resulted in considerable damage to aliens. On July 14, 1921, the Mexican Government by a circular letter announced its willingness to conclude claims conventions for the purpose of indemnifying such aliens. Six such claims conventions were concluded with the following governments: United States, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy.

The short tractate De officio legati by Stephanus Doletus (Étienne Dolet) was printed by the author at his printing establishment at Lyons in 1541. All books with Dolet’s imprint are rare, many of them having been destroyed as heretical. From his press at Lyons between 1538 and 1544 proceeded 84 titles, no one library possessing more than a fraction of the total number bearing his imprint.

Every ambassador who is desirous of rendering due aid, whether it be to a king, or some lesser prince, or to some independent people, and who hopes for praise and honor from the discharge of his office, should guide his course in such a manner as to give special consideration to two matters: first to the condition of his own household, and then to the employment of prudence at the court to which he has been sent.