Evening star., 1941-04-26
Administrative Setup
Held Sole Assurance
Against Crises
Society of international
Law Told U. S. Must
Join in Effort

JOIN IN tffort
Delegates to the 35th annual
meeting of the American Society of
International Law today had posed
for their consideration the thought
that the sole assurance against re-
current world upheavals is admin
istrative machinery-capable of en-
acknowledgement by the United
States and other nations.
This thought was advanced by
speakers last night as the society
neared the end of three-day ses-
sion at the Carlton Hotel. On to-
DAYS program was the election Of
officers, followed tonight by BAN
quet at which the speakers will be
Carl ]. Hambro, president of the
Norwegian Parliament; Henry
Breckenridge of New York and
Lewis w. Douglas, former director
of the budget.
At last nights session, two papers
were delivered, one by Amos j.
Peaslee of New York on interna-
tional constitutional law, and anoth-
er by Egon Observation-Disclosures
of American University. The papers
were discussed by William S. Cul-
bertson of this city, Miss Sarah
Wambaugh of Cambridge, Mass, and
Edward Meade Earle of the Insti-
tute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
the latter saying that after five
years of study of military affairs he
was convinced that if the United
States acts with reasonable prompt
ness Germany will not win the war.
He added that by this he meant
that the United States will win the
war.
Suppression Urged for Vanquished.
The present struggle, Mr.. Ran
ehofen- -Wertheimer said, will not
only be in vain but will end in the
greatest chaos If democracies fail
to recognize that by attempting to
defeat Nazi-ism they have under
taken the moral and material obli-
cation to see that the new demo-
cratic order is fully established and
secured against future relapse.
They must suppress, he continued,
the inevitable tendency on the part
of the defeated forces to re-estab-
lish themselves and they must oc-
cupy and control vast territory until
this is Safeguarded
The deepest pitfall to be avoided,
he continued, in international or
ganization is the creation of false
sense of security. The mere exist
ence of League of Nations delayed
recognition of approaching peril,
weakened their defense effort and
lulled public opinion to sleep, he
said.
Mr.. PeaSlee said that the fact
must be faced frankly that such
government as the Society of Ma
tions now possesses has proved in
adequate to preserve peace and Or
der and to guarantee the rights of
the nations. With 300 years of
failure of mere alliances and asso-
Citations, and with the experience
of two World Wars in a single gen.
Grafton costing per day in money
alone more than what should be
the normal cost per year of effec-
tive organs of international gov
ernment, he said, I'VE can afford to
take daring risks"
Eventual Co-operation Seen.
Mr.. Culbertson said that if there
Is patience and careful working, ma
tions of the world will finally reach
a point where unity and co-opera-
ton will express itself. Miss Wam-
baugh said the League of Nations
machinery would have been ade-
quate to preserve order If the
United States had been in instead
of out of 1t. She added that if world
order is to be re-established, the
United States must play its full
share.
Mr.. Earle said that the United
States after winning, it cannot
withdraw as it did in 1919. He
asserted that there was a lot of
''muddle-headed" thinking on dis
armament, following the last World
War, because other countries were
disarming at time that Germany
was arming.
Late yesterday the lawyers hearo
from Prof. Herbert Wright of Catho-
lie University, who discussed "The
Moral Bases of International Law.
He saw that just as there is a mora
duty for individuals to obey civi
law, so is there a moral duty fol
States to obey the universally rec
ognized rules of international law
Calls for Faithfulness.
Treaties" said Prof Wright
would have no binding power il
not for the observance of a law ol
nature, enjoining the faithful per-
formance of promises and contracts
forbidding the violation of conven.
tions that are wrong and sinful"
Another speaker at yesterdays
afternoon session was Prof. Hans
Kelson of the Harvard University
law school. He said that if eve
seek the causes of the wars by which
the peace guaranteed by the League
of Nations was broken, we find that
they were primarily territorial con-
f1icts."
Prof. KelSon said the establish.
ment of IAN international court with
compulsory jurisdiction-it is true
would be a considerable limitation
upon so-called sovereignty of the
States subjected to this jurisdiction
But experience teaches that States
submit more easily to an interna.
tional court than an internationa
government"
Discussing THE Problem of Post
War International Economic Organi'
cation" at "a luncheon meeting o.
the teachers of international Law
and related subjects, DR.. Henry F
Grady, president of the American
President Lines, said this was ont
of the major issues of the war.
Regardless of the outcome, HI
said, our task is Ito preserve ane
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