348 Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1914– )Greek foreign ministry. By 1916, he had been made foreign minister. He
would be a major fi gure in international law and diplomacy of the interwar
period. Th e foreign minister of Uruguay, Juan Antonio Buero, was another
former law professor, as well as a future legal adviser to the League of Na-
tions secretariat. (Buero also helped to found the World Cup tournament in
soccer, the fi rst of which took place in his country in 1930.)
A number of other international lawyers were present at the conference in
more modest capacities. Advising the American delegation was Manley O.
Hudson, a professor at Harvard Law School (and future World Court judge).
David Hunter Miller was another legal adviser to the American delegation.
He would leave a valuable account of the draft ing of the League of Nations
Covenant. Anzilotti was present on the Italian team. A member of the
French delegation was La Pradelle, a professor at the University of Paris.
Among the German delegates— a decidedly low- profi le group— was Wal-
ther Schücking, who also helped to draft the constitution of the Weimar
Republic and would later sit on the World Court. On the Belgian delegation
was Charles de Visscher, a law professor at the University of Ghent and fu-
ture World Court judge. Representing China was a young man who had
been educated in the United States, named Wellington Koo, of whom much
would be heard later. Th e legal adviser to the Polish delegation was Bohdan
Winiarski, another future World Court judge. Th e Ec ua dorean delegation
boasted Carlos Tobar, of Tobar Doctrine fame.
Th e Brazilian delegation had a most interesting conference. Th e obvious
choice to lead it was Ruy Barbosa, who had been an outspoken champion of
the Allied cause during the war, but he declined to serve. His place was ac-
cordingly taken by Epitácio da Silva Pessôa, a former justice minister, attorney
general, and Supreme Federal Tribunal justice. During the Paris Conference,
a snap presidential election was called, in which Barbosa emerged as the lead-
ing candidate. In a desperate eff ort to keep that mercurial and independent-
minded fi gure out of the presidency, his many foes rallied around a single
opposition fi gure: Pessôa, who duly won the election while serving in Paris.
Pessôa would later become a judge on the World Court (in succession, ironi-
cally, to Barbosa).
Altogether, ten future World Court judges were present at the Paris Con-
ference. Th at was just as well, for there was no shortage of legal work to be
done. In contrast to the Hague Conferences, which were chiefl y concerned