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OFFICERS

President of the League

CHARLES LATHROP PACK

President of the International Council President of the National Advisory Board
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
ALBERT SHAW

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Frank L. Babbott Nehemiah Boynton George W. Kirchwey Walter L. McCorkle

Gilbert A. Beaver John D. Brooks

W. B. Millar

Frederick Lynch

Isaac N. Seligman

Secretary of the Board of Governors
Charles Willard Young
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

SAMUEL T. DUTTON, General Secretary
CHARLES H. LEVERMORE, Cor. Secretary
FRANK CHAPIN BRAY, Editorial Sec'y

John Martin
Albert Shaw

CHARLES H. BURR, Executive Secretary
MISS F. HASTINGS, Sec'y Women's Com.
E. R. PERRY, National Secretary

The officers of The World's Court League cordially invite you to join them in preparing the way for more just and harmonious international relations after the war. Forty-four nations have already voted for the Court of Justice which will be the chief corner-stone of a new world structure. While a League of Nations presupposes a better adjustment of international questions, the greatest assurance of security and durable peace rests in a World Court.

The platform of the League is in harmony with the great work accomplished by the two Hague Conferences and with the treaties which have been made by the United States with thirty nations, providing for delay and inquiry in case of any international difficulty.

To advance and concentrate public opinion the League publishes THE WORLD COURT MAGAZINE. A payment of one dollar makes you a member of The World's Court League and furnishes the magazine for one year.

The League also desires contributions of from five to one thousand dollars for the support of this world-wide movement which is intended to make another war with its horrors and distress unlikely if not impossible.

Use the coupon on opposite page.

PLATFORM

We believe it to be desirable that a League among Nations should be organized for the following purposes:

1. A World Court, in general similar to the Court of Arbitral Justice already agreed upon at the Second Hague Conference, should be, as soon as possible, established as an International Court of Justice, representing the Nations of the World and, subject to the limitations of treaties, empowered to assume jurisdiction over international questions in dispute that are justiciable in character and that are not settled by negotiation.

2. All other international controversies not settled by negotiation should be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, or submitted to an International Council of Conciliation, or Commissions of Inquiry, for hearing, consideration and recommendation.

3. Soon after peace is declared, there should be held either "a conference of all great Governments," as described in the United States Naval Appropriation Act of 1916, or a similar assembly, formally designated as the Third Hague Conference, and the sessions of such international conferences should become permanently periodic, at shorter intervals than formerly.

Such conference or conferences should

(a) formulate and adopt plans for the establishment of a World Court and an International Council of Conciliation, and (b) from time to time formulate and codify rules of internation law to govern in the decisions of the World Court in cases, except those involving any constituent State has within the fixed period signified its dissent. 4. In connection with the establishment of automatically perisions of an International Conference, the constituent Go should establish a Permanent Continuation Committee ference, with such administrative powers as may be d. by the conference.

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A glance at the varied topics listed in the table of contents of this JuneJuly number of The World Court indicates the immediate and forwardlooking scope of patriotic service which characterizes The World's Court League.

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COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE, INC.

THE EDITOR'S POINT OF VIEW

EVERY day of the war convinces

more people that nations-people grouped in states-instead of trying to annihilate each other, ought to go into court like civilized men to settle unnegotiable disputes. A government that refuses to favor this practice is now condemned as an outlaw in the minds of most nations on earth. The monstrous doctrine that "the state" is above all law, either national or international, can not survive this war. Plain citizens the world over care little for subtle diplomatic and legalistic distinctions, but they will universally demand improved international court machinery to secure justice. Statesmen who fail to work out practical applications of the court idea will give place to statesmen who can.

We devote sixteen pages of this number of The World Court Magazine to the the practical question,

"How Shall a World Court be Constituted?" Dr. Levermore's comprehensive study of the subject (pages 276-291) commands international attention. Comment upon its suggestions and proposals is invited from our readers.

In this connection the reader will take special interest in two articles: "Effect of Democracy on International Law," by Elihu Root, who heads the government mission to Russia; and "World Reorganization After the War," by Professor William B. Guthrie, an active member of the Executive Committee of The World's Court League.

A glance at the varied topics listed in the table of contents of this JuneJuly number of The World Court indicates the immediate and forwardlooking scope of patriotic service which characterizes The World's Court League.

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