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Nos. 484-508 U.S. Dep't St. Press Releases 1 (1939)

handle is hein.ustreaties/usdspr0020 and id is 1 raw text is: THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1939 VOL. XX: No. 484-PUBLICATION 1278 Contents The Chaco Peace Conference: Address by Spruille Braden ..... .................. Germany: Treatment of inheritance claims of American citizens .... ............ Visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Den- mark. ..................... Page Treaties, etc.: 1 Payment by Mexico under Special Claims Con- vention of 1934 .... ............ Foreign Service ..... ............... 9 Anniversaries: Haiti: National anniversary ............ 9 Publications ...... ................ THE CHACO PEACE CONFERENCE Address by Spruille Braden I [Released for morning newspapers of January 6] MR. PRESIDENT, EXCELLENCIES, TRUSTEES, MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY, AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER- sITy: I am deeply and sincerely grateful to all of you for this reception, and particularly for the great honor now conferred upon me. No other experience or emotion of my life com- pares with it. If hitherto I have not deserved so much I shall try henceforth never to be for- getful or undeserving or lacking in the proper pride, loyalty, and dignity which a bearer of 1 Delivered as the Meier Katz Memorial Lecture, on the occasion of the presentation of the honorary de- gree of doctor of laws by The Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, Baltimore, Md., Jan. 5, 1939. Mr. Braden is American delegate to the Chaco Peace Conference. 119572-39 the honorary degree of doctor of laws from The Johns Hopkins University should feel and show. May I acknowledge, in addition, that this gracious action, by an institution so famed internationally for high learning and accomplishment, will be of inestimable assist- ance in the work that lies along my road ahead. The degree and the recollections of this night I shall always cherish. Usually a doctor's degree requires years of previous devotion, concentrated study, and in- tellectual endeavor which lead naturally to a final thesis. May I, therefore, as a gesture of compliance and with loyalty to my new alma mater, try to emulate that scholastic procedure by describing briefly, in this Meier Katz Me- l REPRODUCTION BY PERMISSION OF THE BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY BUFFALO, NEW YORK

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