Excerpt from Reports of the Executive Council for 1913-14 and 1914-15, Embodying the Papers Prepared for the Conference Intended to Have Been Held at the Hague in 1914 The present volume is in form the Report of the Executive Council for the year 1914-1915: and the Council has considered itself justified by the peculiar circumstances of the present time in annexing to the Report the papers prepared and printed for the Conference which was to have taken place at The Hague in September, 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.