Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 48
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by the organized opinion of mankind/ Mount Vernon, July 4, 1918.) A. 1 (President Wilton, address at Probtem of International Cooperation and Reorganization Proposed League of Nations. Objects: (a) (b) to establish and enforce the rules of international law. to compel nations to submit their non-justiciable disputes to examination and report by an international commission of inquiry and their justiciable disputes to arbitration. B. The organization of the League. (Should Germany be admitted to membership?) Establishment of an International Court of Justice; an international police force; an international legislative body. Means of enforcing the will of the League: (a) (a) (c) Diplomatic. Economic pressure, boycotts, non-intercourse. Use of force. C. D. Practical difficulties in the way of the organization of the League and the enforcement of its will. Query: Would the entrance of the United States into such a League be in contravention of our traditional policy in respect to entangling alliances? E. Existing examples of international cooperation. (The universal postal and other unions). Note that the countries belonging to the universal postal union have agreed to arbitrate all disputes arising over the interpretation of the Convention creating the Union. F. Propo il for the creation of a super-national state embracing the j great body of existing states. Is it desirable and practicable? Required Reading: Beard and Ogg. Chs. 27-28; Historical Light on the league to Enforce Peace; pamphlet, League of Nations (No. 131), Pecker, America's War Aims and Peace Program. Copies on reserve in the general library.
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