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Up for sale a RARE! "Hague Tribunal Member"John Bassett Moore Hand Signed 3X5 Index Card.
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John Bassett Moore
(December 3, 1860 – November 12, 1947) was an authority on international
law, who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the
first American judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International
Justice (the "World Court"). Moore was born in Smyrna,
Delaware, graduated from the University of Virginia in 1880, and was
admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was a law clerk
at the Department of State, then
an Assistant Secretary of State.
In 1891 he took the first full professorship of international law at Columbia University;he stayed there until 1924. During
his service with the Department of State he acted as secretary to the
Conference on Samoan Affairs (1887) and to the Fisheries Conference (1887–88). While
holding the chair of international law and diplomacy at Columbia, Professor
Moore was frequently granted leave of absence to accept appointments in the
public interest. For part of 1898 he served as Assistant Secretary and Acting
Secretary of State, and after the close of the war with Spain was secretary and
council to the American Peace Commission
at Paris. In 1901, he served as professor of International Law at the Naval War College, where
he initiated that college's long series of "International Law Blue
Book" publications. Subsequently, Moore represented the government as
agent before the United States and Dominican Arbitration Tribunal (1904), as
delegate to the Fourth International American Conference
at Buenos Aires
and special plenipotentiary to the Chilean centenary (both
1910), and as delegate to the International Commission of Jurists at Rio de
Janeiro (1912). He was on the Hague Tribunal from 1912 to 1938, and
was a judge of the Permanent Court of International
Justice from 1920 to 1928. Moore was a proponent of neutrality,
believing that the post-World War I system of alliances would tend to
broaden wars into global conflicts. He was also a strong believer in the
principle of separation of
powers under the United States Constitution, asserting in 1921,
"There can hardly be room for doubt that the framers of the
constitution, when they vested in Congress the power to
declare war, never imagined that they were leaving it to the
executive to use the military and naval forces of the United States all over
the world for the purpose of actually coercing other nations, occupying their
territory, and killing their soldiers and citizens, all according to his own
notions of the fitness of things, as long as he refrained from calling his
action war or persisted in calling it peace. Moore was honored on a U.S. definitive
postage stamp issued December 3, 1966, the five-dollar value of the Prominent Americans series. In 1922, a new
school was dedicated to Moore in his hometown of Smyrna, Delaware. The John
Bassett Moore Intermediate School now serves as a public school for the fifth
and sixth grades. Moore is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City.