Word: legalisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel William Mitchell, under court martial (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) , saw hot times in court last week. It seemed that the legal machinery developed more friction than efficiency. The lawyers of the defense and the prosecution objected and objected to their opponents' course. In a goodly number of cases the prosecution was overruled, and there were persons to remark that, however able the Army's trial judge advocates might be, they had not distinguished themselves as trial lawyers...
...know. I do not see how anyone can say, one way or another. It is perfectly true, as Mr. Borchard suggested, that the usual questions which the World Court may handle are not likely to be those which may lead to war. In the main, they will be legal questions about which nations will disagree, which may even contribute to friction, but which would seldom be inclined to lead to war. The larger political differences which occupy headlines, which give us the scares, which feed the fire-eaters, will not often be susceptible of statement in terms of a legal...
...seek a nostrum. We cannot look for a panacea. But we must develop a process of dealing with situations as they arise by some orderly method. We must do what we can, albeit our powers may be limited, to build a law and legal institutions to which nations may appeal instead of allowing their differences to fester, to smart and to drag them apart. We must do this, at any rate, if we want our international society to be orderly and peaceful...
What would happen to our efforts if every country insisted on making a World Court follow the practice of its own Supreme Court? Senator Borah says that this advisory function reduces the Court to the position of a legal advisor to the Council and subjects it to political influence. I have searched the record of the four years' work and the eighteen cases already handled and I have not found the slightest foundation for such a statement. The Council has its own legal advisers. I myself have served in the legal section of its Secretariat, and I know something...
...time the League Commission, which is at present in Mosul, will make its report; and it is hoped that a definite settlement will be reached. Until some such action is taken, the decision of the Permanent Court of International Justice amounts to no more than an academic ruling on "legal competence...