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Show 213 21o international high court of justice functioning as a court of appeal from national courts in t‘llsk‘s of merchant ships captured in naval to inter- A national observauee of international law and obedience al! national justice. cannot fail greatly to strengthen individu The observance of and obedience to national law and justice. .lt‘l‘ed. then, by the Permanent Liourt of Arbitration advance r e code of procedure adopted for it, is of pro- admirabl the and international found sienificance upon both the national and the scale. in operation The Court of .\rhitral Justice, although not set Promised onal Internati the es constitut ce, by the Second Conferen genuine court. Land of the world today. A truly permanent and a and a consistent with a prestige based upon consecutive decisions a path-breaking great. a was law. onal internati interpretation of needs not to idea. The potency of great ideas in human history d as impracticable abandone although idea. this Now argued. be Second Conference by the liirst conference. was introduced in the defended and almost only eight years later. e\plained, attached, practicable. Some, unanimously accepted as both desirable and led in the task of rollahora jurists onal internati of of the ablest sttlhlllllt‘t‘. The and form it to advocatingV that idea and giving by the conference concrete results of their lal‘or were adopted but as an essential and are published. not as a \‘e riniform appendix annex to the liinal .‘\ct. orth stand Not only will the idea of such a court hencef bly rule the future. imwita will it but . warfare of wrong the behind all but one of its The court itself. tashioned :iud wrought out in the appointment of its details. needs only an agreement as to is breathed into it by our judges: and when this hre.' tth of life q into lwnelicent artiv~ sprin once at will it nations. number of the among the nations. ity. its operation does oot require unanimity war was. for several reasons, one of the Second conference's most important achievements. It is the first truly international razirf established in the history of the world. its decisions will be a fruitful source of maritime late. It will remove a fertile cause of disputes between the hellig‘erents themselves, and between them and neutral nations. and will thereby lessen the bitterness of wars once begun and prevent the outbreak of others The unanimous vote t with the exception of llrazil‘s vote) of its method of selecting judges will pave the way for the solution of the same t'juestion in regard to the (‘ourt of .\rhitral Justice. lly supplying in tune ot war a regular adjudicatirm of one very important and delicate class of international differences it will serve as an induct- ive argument and give a strong impulse to the establishment of the Court of Arbitral Justice for the adjudication of all classes 0 f international differences in time of peace. \K‘flmmi\ ‘4‘) )0" "WM ‘ And, finally, its estab- lishment has already given rise to one important international naval conference. that in London in Ioob'agoo. which will douht~ less be followed by others. designed to fill up the gaps and strengthen the weak spots in the maritime law of nations. and thus to afford the new International Prize Court a more solid legislative foundation upon which to erect its structure of judicial decisions and precedents. The institution established by the conferences at The Hague which stands out lire-eminent in the mind of the nations isithe Permanent Court of Arbitration. This pre-eminenee is deserved: for. although this institution is not truly permanent nor is it a genuine court, yet it is the pioneer of its race and has already proved itself of incalculable utility, having settled four important international differences and attracted six others into the path towards peaceful solution. Like the Magma Charta of England and the Constitution of the United States, it is the C(,>rIICF;:s‘f()tl(' of the edifice of international law and justice which will be erected in the future: while its establishment is a tangible evidence of the fact that national governments, whose dutv it is to enforce law and justice within their own territories. themselves recognize theeternal and universal validity of those principles upon which their own reason for existence and claim to allegiance are based. .\ct of The Hague: as did so many other features of the li'tnd nce. as did the ('on"or times it require even a twortlurd» accepta when two or more moment the but stitution of the l'nited States: its judges. it will open its powers Ittft‘i‘e upon the apjwiutnn-nt of though constituted doors for the parilivation of di~pute~, liven of .\rhitr:d by onlj. two power i, :1 will be lutown as the t'ourt a city st ‘1 upon a bill, it will jttstii'e at The Hague. and, ltlw escape the evils of ext-ritually draw to u all nations st't'hllljfi‘ to warfare. it is still greatly 11 was greatly to be desired, of t-ourre, and |