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Show 247 2.1.6 after another to the house; bringing those of its dissolution, that it might be a link toward peace and equal~ countries t<,-_e'ether and keepingr them together iii to settle their itv, and toward enabling them to find a rational way was between court the before came that case first The ies. dithcult provides treaty The r. Salvado and ilmidttras and (iuatemala every case that each country is obligated to submit to that court Ilonduras they are unable to settle between their foreign offices. and did. not believe there was anything to be gained by waiting ala the going through the formality of discussing with Guatem the court and aggravating incident that arose: so she went to 11‘"me twin Gua~aid: "\‘Ie ask you to take jurisdiction of this case.‘y tion, temala said: "No. you have no right to take jurisdic tdiploma us n betwee ed discuss been not has case this because ce my lCélllY," llonduras answered: "I bare the right to renottn the right to discuss it and to place it before the court and let The. court dtttrmine whether it will take jurisdiction or not." the court determined that it would take jurisdiction, that it had right of jtll'lHllCtlt‘ll. go you see that even with the. most carefully prepared piece of machinery in the shape of court pro- t'edttt'e. limited to live countries. their lilitt't':~‘n similar. their citiyensbip practically transferable from one country to another, that a qmstitnn arr se in the first case brought under the treaty Two or three advances have been made in arbitration which I wish to touch upon for a moment. One is tltat there is today a greater inchnatr in (in our own part to submit questions to arbitras ttmn and tqtially on the part («I other countries. l do not know how familiar you may be with the subject, but it is a fact that the l'nited States has submitted to arbitration cases in which, unless 1 ant mistaken. there have been involved more than thirty decisions of the Supreme (‘ourt of the I‘nited States That has betn the greatest lesson and the greatest encouragement to other countries in the way of agreeing: to arbitrate cases where differ- eiicis arise growing out of court decisions that has occurred (lur- lll" the past titty years. to my l«.no\\'letlgge. 'l‘here is not much d iculty i'i :iti‘iyinet at an agreement to arbitrate it people can Hlll\ be brought ill the point where they are willing: to sit down and lll‘ rte-s a question and not write too much about it The diffi- cult} \\llll ninth \\1'itll‘.j4 about a subject is that it is always neces' ‘_\ to build upon the thing pt'rrinttsl) written, adding one story whereas, if you can discuss a case verbally, on a friendly basis, I believe every instance of an international difficulty can be easily and satisfactorily adjusted by arbitration. I recall that during my visit to Venezuela the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 21 most delightful and charmingr man, a man with whom it was the greatest pleasure to treat and negotiate. and I discussed the questions we had to adjust for twenty-seven (lays, every day, and rrached a solution concerning which we were both entirely satisfied and happy, and which put an end to all the differences that had grown tip during ten or twelve years. During those twenty-seven days there had not been fifty lines written on either side. (Applause) So that I get back to my original thesis. If all of us will just be temperate in our utterances; if we will not undertake in the beginning to determine beforehand questions like the japancse question, which concern our country; if we will ever reach that point where we are willing to admit the possibility, even though we may not know the whole case (laughter and applause), and that wisdom is not goingr to die with us 1' renewed laughter and applause), and that there is a possibility, just a bare possibility, that the United States may not be entirely and abso- lutely and wholly right with regard to the question (laughter and applause), we will have little difficulty in reaching,r solutions of all of our questions that will be an honor and a credit to tts as a people; that will raise us in our own estimation; that will make our relations with other countries satisfactory, peaceful and encouraging, and will not require so deep and so abstruse a knowl- edge of mathematics as I have indicated will be necessary to find a solution for this permanent judicial court. (Applause) MR. CRAI'SICYZ If there is anyone on the floor who has any pertinent thought to add to the (liscussit'in, we will be. very glad to hear from him Or her, allowing just one-half minute for that pertinent person to make tip his mind; otherwise we shall adjourn this session in order that we may refresh ourselves for the very important session that is to beheld this evening, when educational questions are to be considered. The half minute is tip and the session is adjourned. |
