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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address myself to this question by an article which has recently appeared by my learned friend and colleague, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School. In the CRIMSON, his article was given the caption "Question of Joining World Court is of Trivial Importance," and while he might disavow such a conclusion the general emphasis of what he wrote was certainly in that direction...
...over the situation to see just how important the World Court is in the international life of our time. A second enquiry may be, how important is it that the United States should give the Court its support? Now I think we need not exaggerate in answering either question. It can only be unfortunate that some people, notably President Harding, have greatly over-stated the significance of the Court. That has been true also of the League of Nations, and I find myself frequently trying to overcome the discouragement of people to whom the League was wildly oversold...
...view it. Do not understand me to say that it has ever prevented a war, or that it ever will. That I do not 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...
...second question: is it important that the United States give its support to the Court? First, I must say that it is less important today than when President Harding and Secretary Hughes proposed this almost three years ago. For during this interim the Court has got on its feel. It has succeeded in entrenching itself. It has won prestige and confidence among the lawyers of all countries. It has acquitted itself well. It has found itself. Its future new seems secure. It does not lack cases, it does not lack friends, it does not lack funds. Forty-eight other nations...
...question therefore seems so important to me that I should regard it as nothing short of tragic if President Harding's proposal should fail. I say this first of all because of my interest in the development of international law. But I say it also because of my interest in America and her having a place in the sun. For a generation we exhorted the world to build a court. Today, I think the problem is this Court or none. I cannot imagine success for a new effort. I think it comes with bad grace for us to propose...