Another section discussed shipping contracts and formulated a new set
of " Warsaw rules " to be added to the old " York-Antwerp rules." The law of extra- dition was another important subject. It was resolved to stick to the British principle that there should be no extradition for purely political offences, but that there should be extradition for other crimes though com- mitted with political motives. The old question of codification seems to be passing entirely into the hands of the League of Nations. The claims of nations to territorial sovereignty usque ad caelum, on which flying has made it necessary for law to be clear, were upheld. Another curious point was due to the advance of science. There is no law to deal with international publication of libel by radio. The Conference agreed that such defamatory libels should be treated as though they were written libels and not as oral slander. Later on in last week the Institute of International Law began its Congress at Stockholm.
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