Equal rights in matters of justice, Claim 5, p. 1, and pp. xxi and 10. Equal recognition, p. 46. (VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII refer to rights of self-determination of peoples in Russia, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey and Poland, respectively, and follow ideas cited under V and VIII, above.) FOURTH OF JULY (1918) SPEECH, AT MT. VERNON I. "Destruction of every arbitrary power reduction to virtual impotence." "No nation should dominate," p. 50. or II. "Settlement of every question *** *** on basis of free acceptance *** by the people immediately concerned." III. "The co-operation of both belligerents is essential for the establishment and maintenance of any future relationship that is to endure," p. 52. "Consent of all nations to be governed by principles no rancor," p. 52. IV. "Organization of Peace *** which shall check every invasion of right and serve to make *** justice *** secure by affording a *** tribunal of opinion to which all must submit." Whole Isolation Plan. LIBERTY LOAN SPEECH, SEPT. 27, '18, N. Y. METRO. OPERA HOUSE I. "Impartial justice no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just." "The mode of constituting the (arbitral) courts is the most complete device to assure impartiality." Claim, 6, p. 1 and p. 13 et seq. II. "No special or separate interest of any nation or group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the settlement." "It (The Isolation Plan) would afford an absolute equality between large and small nations in matters of right." Claim 5, pp. 1, 17 and 50. III. "No Leagues or alliances * * * within the League of Nations." "It would lend no encouragement to alliances between nations." Claim 4, p. 1. IV. Repetition of III and "no employment of any form of economic boycott or exclusion except as power in League as means to discipline and control." "It would be wholly scientific. *** The sanction (of isolation) would be the most drastic. The application of the sanction would not be directed toward the support of any side of the contention. The function of the body that would administer it would simply be to establish a fact which should be determined in less than a day." Claims 9-12, pp. 1-2. "Non-compliance would be a breach of the Convention * * * (p. 22.) V. "All agreements and treaties must be made known." An Arbitral Court would not recognize an agreement compromising its jurisdiction or enforce those prejudicial to the interests of third nations, unless the latter had had previous notice. When the matter in nowise affects other nations the reason for making it known would not exist. ANNEX IX COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT SCHEME FOR THE PERMANENT COURT. This work throughout advocates the employment of arbitration commissions, dwelling upon the advantages of such a system over that of a court with permanent judges, and at certain places, lays stress upon the impossibility of agreeing upon a plan for appointing judges that would be satisfactory to litigant nations. The Council, having been charged, under Article 14, to prepare such a plan for the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and having failed, delegated an Advisory Committee of Jurists to do so, in its stead, and they have submitted a Draft Scheme, which, it is submitted, is so defective that no court that can inspire confidence and have permanency can flourish under it, if indeed, it can ever be erected. The Report provides that the court shall consist of 15 members: 11 judges and 4 deputy-judges. It contemplates the naming of two persons by each nation of good standing, which names-probably from sixty to a hundred -are to be arranged by the Secretary-General of the League, alphabetically. Thereupon, the Council and the Assembly concurrently are to vote upon them; and, in the first instance, those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of both bodies shall be considered elected, etc. Why the names should be arranged alphabetically, can have no other significance than that they are to be voted |