The American Journal of International Law : April. (Waverley Press,
Baltimore.)—The first article in this number (the second of the first volume) is an address by Mr. Elihu Root, president, to the American Society of International Law on "The Real Question under the Japanese Treaty" and the San Francisco School Board Resolution. Mr. Root points out that "the fact that a Treaty provision would interfere with or annul the laws of a State as to aliens concerning whom the provision is made is no impeachment of the Treaty's authority.' He quotes apposite cases,—e.g., a decision of the Supreme Court upholding the right of a British subject under the Treaty of 1783 to recover debts from a Virginian debtor in contravention of a Virginian law which confiscated all such debts to the State. In another case a French subject was held qualified to hold real property in Maryland, though Maryland law forbade it. This is clear enough ; but, as Mr. Root himself remarks, "it is the people now, not govern- ments, make friendship or dislike, sympathy or discord, peace or war, between nations."
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