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...World Court, like a good many other institutions, seems to stand in greater danger from its friends than from its enemies. Yesterday, the pro-Court senators, although assured of eventual ratification of the present protocol as it stood, added a few more amendments to that already much emasculated measure, thereby showing themselves less interested in the success of the new peace plan, than in passing some kind of a bill to fulfill their campaign promises...
...Loucheur's advocacy before the Assembly of the League of Nations of both the ill-fated Protocol and a plan for a World Economic Conference is of course well known (TIME, Sept...
Unless it has some such significance, the issue is most unimportant; and many earnest students of foreign affairs, men like Senator Borah, have expressed the firm conviction that our adhering to the protocol creating the court can have no other purpose or effect than affording an entrance to the league. It is doubtless partly on that very account that the proposed step has had such wide support as well as opposition. If Senator Borah's view is justified in fact, the proposed policy deserves more profound consideration from American citizens than it has yet received. It is then more than...
...such a possibility at least there is here a genuine issue as to policy. Although the court is the direct creation of the league and depends upon the league budget for its support, it may be that it is so far dissociated from its organization that adhering to the protocol creating the court, as the administration spokesmen have asserted, will involve no other commitments to the league. Yet the fact that so many professional and non-professional advocates of the league are so ardently enthusiastic for our "joining" the World Court, of whose real functions some of them appear...
...status quo has been taken out of the hands of the League, for the moment, and is being attempted by making "regional security agreements" among the powers (see INTERNATIONAL). If these agreements fail, the powers are likely to return to the League and to something resembling the Protocol. If they are successful, Germany will almost certainly be brought within the League, and the assistance of the League made use in administering the regional compact treaties...