THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE, INC.

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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.

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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

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

Gilbert A. Beaver John D. Brooks

Frederick Lynch John Martin

W. B. Millar

Albert Shaw

Charles Willard Young
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

Secretary of the Board of Governors

SAMUEL T. DUTTON, General Secretary

CHARLES H. LEVERMORE, Cor. Secretary

FRANK CHAPIN BRAY, Editorial 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.

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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.

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Entered as second class matter, September 16, 1912, at the Post Office at New York
Copyright, 1915, by The World's Court League, Inc.

THE WAR FOR PEACE THAT MUST BE WON

OUR present and immediate task

is to win the war, and nothing shall turn us aside from it until it is accomplished. Every power and resource we possess, whether of men, of money, or materials, is being devoted and will continue to be devoted to that purpose until it is achieved. Those who desire to bring peace about before that purpose is achieved I counsel to carry their advice elsewhere. We will not entertain it. We shall regard the war as won only when the German people say to us, through properly accredited representatives, that they are ready to agree to a settlement based upon justice and the reparation of the wrongs their rulers have done." Thus President Wilson voiced anew the spirit and determination of the people of the United States, in his message to Congress December 4, calling for the declaration of war against Austria-Hungary.

Five weeks later, and three days after a speech by Lloyd George, the military and diplomatic situation was such that the President took the initiative by speaking again to Congress on the war aims of the United States. This message to men and nations, we believe will prove to be more important than the utterances of any other living statesmen since the war began. We held back this number of THE WORLD COURT MAGAZINE long enough to get the text of the epochal international message into these pages. Again has President Wilson asserted a moral leadership in a supreme moment of world history. He has exalted and advanced the standard of world statesmanship. He has imperishably rephrased the ideals of democracy in concrete terms of war-and-peacemaking. The public opinion of the world-all the major forces of mankind-will rally to such American leadership of Right against sheer