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Tun BLUE AND GOLD, '17.
vent war. This society, known as "A League To Enforce Peace," has for a foundation, adopted four terms to be followed. which are to a large extent vague and general, yet are adaptable for present needs.
They are. first, the establishment of a Supreme Court of the World. modelled after the court created by the second Hague Conference, except for the method of selecting the judges. This court is to have complete jurisdiction and to which all questions must he referred.
The second is the formation of a Council of Conciliation, which is to have both legislative and executive functions.
The third being that all the economic and military forces of the league are to he used against any nation going to war without first submitting its dispute to the Supreme Court of the World; while the fourth term is designed to have an international parliament, which, meeting at certain stated intervals, will revise and verify international law.
These proposals will, if carried out, lead us a great deal further toward the solution of many of our modern diplomatic perplexities, among which are permanent peace, freedom of the seas, limiting of naval and military armament and finally will make the principles of the Monroe Doctrine universal, or to use the words of President Wilson : "No nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people; but every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development. unhindered. unthreatened and unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful."
As can plainly be seen, this league was not formed with the idea of abolishing wars, but to prevent and delay those conflicts which are the result of passion or hasty and misrepresented conclusions. The league's sole object being the principle of arbitration.
But on the other hand, if any nation, no matter how powerful, should engage in war without first submitting its cause for action to the court then the league's entire economic and military forces would be used against that country to force it to recognize this United States of Nations.
This leads us to the questions. Why not use economic pressure entirely and abolish force of arms? Why not rely wholly on international law?
REUBEN SATTERLEY
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