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Outside the State Department, the Navy and the communications industry, I doubt that many citizens were aware of the 1884 agreement, or for that matter, of the extent of treaties and other agreements to which the United States is a party.
There came to my desk recently ^he latest edition of an annual publication of 'the Department of State,* entitled “Treaties in Force”. It is a papeihound book of 270 pages which merely lists the agreements. The subject index runs from Agriculture to Yalta Agreements and covers such widely differing matters as atomic energy, automotive traffic, aviation, seals and whales, copyrights and patents, postal arrangements, defense alliances. extradition of criminals, tariffs, health, weather, naicotice and labor.
The manner in which international agreemets of die United States have gone beyond die original concept of formal treaties has
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