Vol. IV, No. 8. Published monthly, $2 a year, by The World's Court League, Inc., Educational Building, 2 West 13th Street, New York. Entered as second-class matter, July 31, 1915, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. THE CONTROL OF NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICIES 458 By an Escaped Civilian 464 THE PERMANENT LEAGUE FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE 471 THE NEW EASTERN FRONT-RUSSIA "COMING BACK" 476 TREATIES OF UNION RATHER THAN ALLIANCE OF WESTERN 492 By Alejandro Alvarez FINLAND, WHERE GERMANY IS VULNERABLE By Charles H. Levermore RELIGION MAKING PATRIOTISM SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY 495 . 498 By Shailer Mathews AFTER-THE-WAR FOOD PROBLEMS 500 MORE KAISERISMS . PRESIDENT WILSON AGAINST MOB SPIRIT. 506 507 509 UNITED STATES CELEBRATION OF BASTILE DAY, JULY 14 . Two Years in Constantinople-The Aims of Labor-In the Fourth Year THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE, INC. 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. In connection with the establishment of automatically periodic sessions of an International Conference, the constituent Governments should establish a Permanent Continuation Committee of the conference, with such administrative powers as may be delegated to it by the conference. THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE, INC. Educational Building, New York MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION I desire to become a member of The World's Court League and receive the WORLD COURT MAGAZINE for one year, for which I enclose Two Dollars. OFFICERS President of the League CHARLES LATHROP PACK President of the International Council President of the National Advisory Board Frank L. Babbott Nehemiah Boynton George W. Kirchwey Walter L. McCorkle Gilbert A. Beaver John D. Brooks Frederick Lynch John Martin W. B. Millar Secretary of the Board of Governors Albert Shaw Charles Willard Young EXECUTIVE OFFICERS SAMUEL T. DUTTON, General Sec'y FREDERICK E. FARNSWORTH, Executive Sec'y FRANK CHAPIN BRAY, Editorial Sec'y CHARLES H. LEVERMORE, Corresponding Sec'y 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 two dollars 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. 198 LIBRARY Grates For delays in delivering magazines, owing to war conditions of transportation and mail service, it is necessary to ask readers of THE WORLD COURT to make patriotic allowance. BUILDING A LEAGUE OF NATIONS N the lips of that arch-diplomat, Baron Burian, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for AustriaHungary, the phrase League of Nations becomes a mockery to us. In his address to the Austrian and Hungarian Premiers, July 16th, he forecasts closer economic, military and other relations of the Central Powers. Their alliance henceforth will not mean a threat or unfriendliness to any one, he says: it will include nothing calculated to offer a stimulus to the formation of counter groups. Indeed, in Burian's climax of fair words, the blood-soaked world is assured that "everything which in the future can be realized of the sublime idea of a universal league of nations shall find in our [the German-Austro-Hungarian] alliance no obstacle, but a favorable nucleus and a prepared group which can easily and naturally unite with every general combination of States resting on concrete principles." Here is the same smooth Machiavellianism that, toward Russia professed principles of self-determination, no annexation, and no indemnities, but which in German practice proved to be sheer intrigue, wanton robbery and forced tribute. Probably Baron Burian does not deceive even himself into thinking that this war will make the Central Powers an attractive nucleus instead of anathema among the nations of the earth, but he does demonstrate what a hardened expert in European diplomacy can do by way of word jugglery for his masters. Admittedly, European governments and peoples have come to expect more cynicism and deceit in diplomacy than we have been willing to sùspect. The Central Powers insist upon their own immoral standards as those which President Wilson must |