牛 The World Court Vol. V, No. 1. Published monthly, $2 a year, by The World's Court League, Inc., Entered as second-class matter, July 31, 1915, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under 。 TABLE OF CONTENTS, JANUARY, 1919 PRESIDENT WILSON SPEAKS IN FRANCE, ENGLAND AND ITALY COLLECTION OF REMARKABLE ADDRESSES MADE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PRIOR TO THE FIRST FORMAL SESSION OF THE PEACE CON- FERENCE IN PARIS-A MISSIONARY TOUR UNPRECEDENTED HE PLEADS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FRIENDSHIP AND MORAL FORCES OF THE WORLD IN A LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO SECURE JUSTICE and Right AND LIBERTY FOR . POLITICAL AND MORAL BASES, Philip Van Ness Myers; OPPORTUNITY FOR WORLD COURT LEAGUE INTEREST IN A LEAGUE OF NATIONS 53 MEMBERS AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE. LETTERS FROM ARthur Capper, J. H. RALSTON, MARY E. WOOLLEY, J. C. PRITCHARD, EDMUND J. JAMES, EDWARD WORLD COURT LEAGUE WORK FOR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS 57 CABLEGRAM TO PRESIDENT WILSON AND HIS REPLY. LUNCHEON SPEECHES BY SAMUEL T. DUTTON, THEODORE MARBURG, SIMEON E. BALDWIN, JAMES L. 62 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 international law to govern in the decisions of the World Court in all cases, except those involving any constituent State which has within the fixed period signified its dissent. 4. 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PRESIDENT WILSON'S APPEAL TO EUROPEAN OPINION THE PUBLIC HERE seems to be nothing with which to compare President Wilson's appeal to public opinion in Europe in connection with the Peace Conference. The circumstances are unprecedented. Peace Conferences have been called and held before. Sovereigns have exchanged official visits and propagated sentimental ties to bind alliances. But now, for the first time, a President of the United States, not only goes to Europe to take a leading part in the Peace Conference, but is given the freedom of France, England and Italy to speak openly from the American standpoint to all classes of their people as well as to the heads of those nations about the kind of peace to be secured. Thus both European and American precedents give way to a new species of public diplomacy. How far the President may have counteracted the "slump in idealism" which liberal journals in Europe noted with regret since the armistice took effect, we have no means of knowing yet. But Mr. Wilson has again demonstrated his own faith in the power of direct appeal to the moral sense of men and to their сараcity for loyalty to ideals of justice and right above material interests. Of this faith there is a very characteristic expression in the few words Mr. Wilson spoke to a delegation of editors in Italy, where territorial claims on the Adriatic are large: "If I had known that this important delegation was coming to see me I would have tried to say something worthy of the occasion. As it is, I can only say that my purpose and the purpose of those associated with us at Paris is a common purpose. Justice and right are big things, and in these circumstances they are big with difficulty. Understand, I am not foolish enough to suppose that our decisions will be easy to arrive at, but the principles upon which they are to be arrived at ought to be |