SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE
EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, RELATING TO THE LEGAL EFFECT OF CERTAIN TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
APRIL 27, 28, 29, MAY 2, 5, 10, 11, AND 12, 1955
Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary
Dana Converse Backus, Esq., New York, N. Y...
Hon. John W. Bricker, a United States Senator from the State of
Ohio....
Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States..
Gertrude S. Carraway, president general, National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution..
George P. Delaney, international representative, American Federa-
tion of Labor; accompanied by George D. Riley, member, national
legislative committee, American Federation of Labor.
Eberhard P. Deutsch, member, Committee on Peace and Law Through
United Nations, American Bar Association, New Orleans, La
Harold C. Deutsch, department of history, University of Minnesota,
Minnesota Committee Opposing the Bricker Amendment_
Hon. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State___
John V. Duncan, chairman, committee on international law, the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York_-_-
George A. Finch, vice chairman, Committee on Peace and Law
Through United Nations, American Bar Association_
Jefferson B. Fordham, dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School__
Harrop A. Freeman, professor of law, Cornell University, representing
the Friends Committee on National Legislation
Erwin N. Griswold, dean, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass..
Mrs. Myra C. Hacker, National Association for Pro-America, West
Englewood, N. J..
Vermont Hatch, Esq., member, Committee on Peace and Law Through
United Nations, American Bar Association_
Frank E. Holman, former president, American Bar Association_
Hon. Jacob K. Javits, attorney general, State of New York.
Omar B. Ketchum, director, National Legislative Service of the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars of the United States; accompanied by Francis
J. McNamara, director, American sovereignty campaign, Veterans
of Foreign Wars of the United States.
W. L. McGrath, president, Williamson Heater Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,
and United States employer delegate to the International Labor
Organization, and member of its governing body-
Charles H. McLaughlin, department of political science, University of
Minnesota; director of research, Minnesota Committee Opposing
the Bricker Amendment...
Clarence Manion, former dean, Notre Dame Law School
Ray Murphy, chairman, American Legion special subcommittee on
convenant of human rights and United Nations; accompanied by
Miles D. Kennedy, director, national legislative commission,
American Legion.
.Mrs. Robert A. Murray, coordinator, Vigilant Women for the Bricker
Amendment; accompanied by Mrs. Lewis Barker, coordinator...
Mrs. James B. Patton, honorary president general and national chair-
man of the National Defense Committee of the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution_.
Alfred J. Schweppe, chairman, Committee on Peace and Law, American
Bar Association.
J. Raymond Tiffany, general counsel, National Small Businessmen's
Association, Evanston, Ill_ _
Bethuel M. Webster, former president of the Bar Association of the
City of New York..
Lewin Wethered, the American Veterans Committee_
Quincy Wright, professor of international law, University of Chicago.
Exhibits:
Copy of letter from Hon. Estes Kefauver to Hon. Herbert Brownell,
Jr., Attorney General of the United States, dated April 11, 1955.
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Assistant Secretary of State,
Thruston B. Morton, dated April 13, 1955___
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Attorney General Herbert
Brownell, Jr., dated April 21, 1955
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Foreign Operations Administra-
tor Harold E. Stassen, dated April 15, 1955.
Copy of Senate Joint Resolution 1, 84th Congress-
Copy of Senate Joint Resolution 1, 83d Congress, as introduced _ _
Copy of Senate Joint Resolution 1, 83d Congress, as reported to the
Senate by the Committee on the Judiciary.
Copy of Senate Joint Resolution 1, 83d Congress, amendment as
proposed by Hon. Walter George..
Membership list of the Minnesota Committee Opposing the Bricker
Amendment.
Resolutions urging adoption of the Bricker amendment by the Na-
tional Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution for the
years 1952, 1953, 1954, and 1955
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Hon. John W. Bricker, dated
May 17, 1955
Letter published in the New York Times, February 13, 1954, from
Louis H. Pink, New York State Superintendent of Insurance, sub-
mitted by Dean Erwin N. Griswold, Harvard Law School__
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Hon. Herbert Brownell, Jr.,
Attorney General of the United States, dated May 16, 1955---
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Thomas J. Quinn, president,
Defenders of the Constitution, Inc., with a resolution..
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from James Watt, manager, Wash-
ington, D. C., office Christian Science Committee on Publication..
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Rev. Charles F. Boss, Jr., execu-
tive secretary, Board of World Peace of the Methodist Church, with
a resolution, dated April 20, 1955-
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Rev. Charles F. Boss, Jr., execu-
tive secretary, Board of World Peace of the Methodist Church,
dated May 12, 1955.
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Frederick Wallach, Esq., Bay-
side, N. Y...
Letter dated June 18, 1955, from C. William O'Neill, president of the
Association of Attorney Generals -
Objectives of the Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment.
Editorial, Treaty Law, San Francisco Examiner, May 9, 1955.
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Mrs. Robert A. Murray, co-
ordinator, Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment, dated May
14, 1955.
Decision, Supreme Court of the United States, No. 28, October Term,
1954, Evelyn Rice, Petitioner, v. Sioux City Memorial Park Cemetery,
Inc., et al.
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from William L. Josslin, Esq., Port-
land, Oreg., with attachment: pages 29-36 Oregon State Bar Reports
containing the report of the special committee on the Bricker
amendment..
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Dr. Stephen Goodyear, M. D.,
New York, N. Y., with the following enclosures:
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from W. Houston Kenyon, Jr., Esq.,
New York, N. Y., enclosing a copy of the recommendation of the
New York County Lawyers Association, committee on Federal legis-
lation, and a report previously prepared by that committee_--
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Lester B. Orfield, professor,
Indiana University School of Law, enclosing an address he de-
livered before the Indianapolis Bar Association on March 3, 1954--
Letter to Hon. Estes Kefauver from Charles Fairman Nagel, pro-
fessor of constitutional law, Washington University School of
Law, St. Louis, Mo.
Dana Converse Backus, Esq., New York, N. Y.
Eberhard P. Deutsch, member, committee on peace and law through
United Nations, American Bar Association, New Orleans, La..........
Leavitt R. Barker, Esq., Minneapolis, Minn. -
Harold C. Deutsch and Charles H. McLaughlin on behalf of the
Minnesota Committee Opposing the Bricker Amendment..
Harrop A. Freeman on behalf of the Friends Committee on National
Legislation....
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