WORLD COURT A MAGAZINE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS Vol. III-No. IV May, 1917 Ten Cents We Go Into War to Make the World Safe for Democracy 0 President Wilson's Twentieth Century Charter of Humanity Disposes of American Isolation 2 Where Latin America Stands ด Charts for International Organization to Guarantee Peace o A Yale-Harvard Debate Wanted: International Freedom of The Press Published by THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE, Inc. Equitable Building, New York City FROM Constantinople College for Women An American College in the War-Zone needs your support. Open in the face of many difficulties. Needs more funds to meet larger deficit owing to war. Many students in special need of relief Will You Help? Five Reasons Why You Should Support Constantinople College FIRST Because it is the largest and best institution for women in the Balkans and has for years provided a liberal American education for the girls of the Levant. SECOND Because it is one of the strongest factors for Peace in the Near East. Four hundred students this year of fourteen nationalities are living together in peace, learning the true spirit of tolerance and the virtue of political as well as individual harmony. THIRD Because the budget is extraordinarily large during these war times. Food prices are prohibitive; coal is very expensive; all supplies are difficult to obtain. In order to keep open, which is necessary for its very existence, the College must have your help. FOURTH Because it is at present harboring Armenian girls, who have felt the effects of the persecution of their race, and have looked to an American institution as the safest place in time of trouble. FIFTH Because the influence of American philanthropy is at stake. Since 1871 America has been supporting this College for women in Turkey. Shall war conditions now force it to be closed? Shall this work suffer for mere lack of funds? Shall American support fail at this critical moment? THE ANSWER IS WITH YOU $5 will mean membership in the Constantinople College Association. $50 will pay tuition for one day student for one year. $1,200 will pay a professor's salary. $5,000 will endow a scholarship for one resident student. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: SAMUEL T. DUTTON, Treasurer Care: THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE, 120 Broadway, New York LEAGUES OF INTERNATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE WAR YALE-HARVARD DEBATE ON A LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE 215 WAR FOR DEMOCRACY Reported by Robert W. Dunn By H. L. Gantt 220 222 SYNOPSIS OF PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT WILSON'S WAR MESSAGE AND PROCLAMATION 226 A CALL TO PATRIOTIC SERVICE By Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews 248 Speaking for the World's Court League-National Advisory Board of PLATFORM We believe it to be desirable that a League among Nations should be organized for the following purposes: 1. A World Court, in general similar to the Court of Arbitral Justice already agreed upon at the Second Hague Conference, should be, as soon as possible, established as an International Court of Justice, representing the Nations of the World and, subject to the limitations of treaties, empowered to assume jurisdiction over international questions in dispute that are justiciable in character and that are not settled by negotiation. 2. All other international controversies not settled by negotiation should be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, or submitted to an International Council of Conciliation, or Commissions of Inquiry, for hearing, consideration and recommendation. 3. 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