Word: submits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present anarchic state, that the new international court is urgently needed if peace is to be assured, and that by staying out we are blocking the world's efforts for peace; that it is either this world court or none; that we would be under no obligation to submit to the court any dispute we desired to keep from it; that the court has no serious connection with the League of Nations; and that we would make reservations expressly entering a caveat against any association with the league...
...joining" the so-called world court runs the major assumption that the court would furnish a substitute for war, at least in part; that nations desire a court of this kind for the settlement of their disputes, and that the creation of the new court invites the nations to submit their differences for peaceful adjudication...
...jurisdiction. It is also well to remember that the Council of the league, when they received the report of the Committee of Jurists which recommended obligatory jurisdiction of the legal issues mentioned promptly struck out the provision for obligatory jurisdiction. The larger Powers were still unwilling to submit automatically the most legal of questions to judicial determination. The obligation to submit was left optional, and fortunately some fifteen smaller nations on condition of reciprocity, have ratified the optional clause. It may be hoped that the practice will prove contagious. Thus far the clause has not yet been invoked...
...called for the defense. The list included Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. It was pointed out that it is unusual to subpoena Cabinet officers, and Mr. Reid countered by saying personal attendance would be waived if the three Secretaries would submit documentary records...
...Every Fascist must submit to rigid discipline. Only thus can Fascism carry out its work . . . under competition among the peoples in the arena of world civilization...