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rules in accordance with which that tribunal
should act. These rules would have to accept
the status quo at some given period, for the
endeavor to redress all historic wrongs would
throw US back into chaos. They would lay
down the rules that the territorial integrity
Of each nation was inviolable; that it was to
bo guaranteed absolutely its sovereign rights
IN certain particulars, including, for instance,
the right to decide the terms on which irllni-
grants should be admitted to it's borders for
purposes Of residence, citizenship or BUSH
ness; in short. ali It's rights in matters affect
ing its honor and vital interests. Each ma
tion should be guaranteed against having any
Of these specified rights infringed upon. They
would not be made arbitrable any more than an
individuals right to life and limb is made
bitrable; they would be mutually guaranteed.
All other matters that could arise between
these nations should be settled by the Inter
national Court. The judges should act not as
national representatives but purely as judges,
and in any given case it would probably be
well to choose them by lot, excluding, Of
course, the representatives of the powers
whose interests were concerned. Then, and
most important, the nations should, severally
guarantees to use their entire military force,
fed the DEGREES of the tribunal, or which
violated any of the rights which in the rules
it was expressly stipulated should be reserved
to the several nations, the rights to their ter
ritorial integrity and the like"
1t is particularly interesting to note that the
Colonel came back again and again in this
discussion to the imperative need Of force to
back the courts decisions. FINALLY and most
Important he wrote, "ths treaty Gle. agree
ment as to the association) shall put force back
of righteousness, shall provide method Of
procuring by the exercise Of force the observ-
ance OF solemn international obligations.
This is to be accomplished by all the powers
covenanting to put their whole strength back
Of the fulillment of treaty obligations, in
cluding the DEGREES Of the court established
under and in accordance with the treaty"
And again: land here comes the vital and es-
sential point of the whole system" that they
shall all agree "to act with the combined mill
tary strength of all of them against any recall
citrant nation, against any nation which trans
crosses at the expense Of any other nation
the rights which it is agreed shall not be ques-
toned, or which, on arbitrable matters refuses
to submit to the decrees of the arbitral court"
Colonel Roosevelt's stress on an Interna-
tional court, backed by the force of the great
nations, is all the more interesting, in view
of tho declaration in the Republican platform
of 1920 favoring an International Court and
in view Of the remarks in President Harding's
inaugural address and other speeches.
"The Republican party" SO reads the plank
IN the platform Of 1920" stands for an agree
n,ent among the nations to preserve the peace
Of the world. We believe that such an inter-
national association must be based upon inter-
national justice and must provide methods
which shall maintain the rule Of public right
by the development Of law and tho decision
Of impartial courts and which shall secure