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A

America, Suggestion cheaper for, to purchase and scrap the
navies of the World, etc., 50.

America, Responsibility in upbuilding system of armed
peace, 50.

Appeals in international matters: arguments against, 18;
substitute for cases of extreme severity, 19; expense of,
forbidding, 19.

Arbitration: Arguments in favor of, 6; comparison with
Court System, 13; Bourgeois opinion indispensable for
all cases of peculiar gravity, 6-7; mode of choosing
Arbitrators, most impartial, 7-8; selection of Arbitrators
facilitated by biographies, 15; stimulating effect on
persons chosen, 15; no delays because of calendars, 5;
Nationals may sit with Umpires, value of plan, 15; not
the object, but compulsory recourse when negotiation
fails, 54; fraud, retrial in case of, 5, 62 (Art. xx).
Armaments: limitation of, unless general disarmament, an
impossibility, 26.

Assembly: powers of, apparently enlarged by insertion of
any" in Art. 3 at writer's suggestion, 78-9.

Attitude of mind: fear of neighbors, 52; honor, 29; per-
manent judges, 14; passion, 4.

Autocracies cannot exist without military power, 52.

B

Balfour, for economic blockade where defiance of League, 22.
Berne International Peace Congress, xix.

Blocus, Continental, xviii; distinguished, 23.

Blymyer, Mary E., observation as to withdrawal, 114.

Bourgeois, Leon, Opinion as to necessity of arbitration, 6-7.

Boycott: distinguished, 24.

Breach of Convention: non-compliance, 22.

Brewer, Mr. Justice David, Text supplied to, xx; use made
of, 24.

British diplomatists: reservations, xii; representation under
Covenant 110; over-reaching 111;

League, 127, et seq.

British parliamentary system, 112.

Bryan Peace Treaties, 43.

Bryce plan, 42.

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Calendar, Court, delays, 12, 15

C

Canada, example of confidence without armaments, 53
Carnegie, Andrew, see Hague Tribunal; first interest mani-
fested in international arbitration, xix; text supplied
him by the author, xx; use made of same, 25; writer's
suggestion to, to invite Wm. T. Stead to America, xxi
Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., 36

Choate, Joseph: Proposal at 2d Hague Conference as to
Court of permanent judges, 11

Civil Law, principles of, preferable, 9-10
Claims for The Isolation Plan grouped, 1

Code, international, not indispensable at outset, 2 (21)
Colonial Territory, 46.

Compensatory satisfaction, should award be in disregard of
principles, 19

Conciliation, 42

Constitution of United States of America: difficulties in
erecting compared, 32; no amendment of, necessary to
enable America to join, 2 (18)

Conventions: Suggestions for, Arbitration and General Dis-
armament, 57 (Annex I); termination of, provision for
orderly, 54, 64 (Art. xxxv), regarding land 44; nations,
46; colonial territory, 46; unorganized territory, 47;
outlets to the sea, 47; passage, sojourn, duties, taxes,
etc., 48; Alsace-Lorraine, 48

Council, a Star Chamber, 115

Court Permanent Judges: 8 et seq.; opposition to, before
delegates to 2d Hague Conference, xxi, 10, 17-8, xiii, 143;
necessity for restricting number of judges, 13; might be
wholly unversed in subject-matter, 13; inimical to a
certain nation, 13-14; could not remain indifferent to
litigants when nations, 14; associating intimately would
be apt to be influenced by casual remarks, 14; most
competent men not available for; if so, soon superanu-
ated, 16.

Covenant: as Diplomatic Achievement, 127; crude instru-
ment, 115

D

Decisions: reasoned (motives), 10; and delivered at final
hearing, 60

Default, to prove, one formula necessary, 7

Departure from practice of recognizing national equality in
arbitrations, 18

Disarmament, partial, an impossibility, vii, 26, 113, 133;
agreement would have no value, 28; Commission, 63
(Art. xxix)

Dogger Bank Commission, no test of conciliation plan, 42

E

English practice, no appeal, as of right, in criminal cases, 19
Equality of Nations in matters of right; 1(5); and see, under
Court, Permanent judges

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Exaltation, of persons not necessary under Plan, 5; contrary,
under court plan, 12

Exclusion, 48

F

Force: economic and military, World's Court Congress, 35;
League to Enforce Peace, id.; opposition of Chamber of
Commerce of United States, 36; application from outside
easier, xi; difficulties in employing, under Plan of League
to Enforce Peace, 40; limited only by economic strength,
if game to remain one of war, xiii, 27, 50

G

German colonies, reason why France should wish to restore,
116

H

Hague Conferences: First, xvii; second, xvii, xxi, 8-11;
Hague Court, members of, might well compose the executive
body, or Tribunal," under this plan, 5; Constitution
of, 32-3

66

Hinterland principle, 47

Honor, national, 29

I

Interdependence of three features: disarmament, arbitra-
tion and the sanction of isolation, vii, 3

International Prize Court of 1909: no guide, 17

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N

Nations: like individuals, can overcome passion, 4; enumera-
tion and qualifications, 46

Non-compliance: an affront to the authority of the League,

22, 107.

Non-justiciable cases, xiii, 29; in “

Bryan Treaties," 43; and

plan of League to Enforce Peace, 35

Outlets to the sea, 47

P

Passion: reflection must start before, wells up, 4

Passy, Frederic, xix

Peace, Perpetual: hope for shattered, unless general disarma-
ment, 2 (20), 3

Permanent Court: Draft Scheme unworkable, 143

Prize Court, Int.: plan for appointing judges of, not a cri-
terion for Court of General Jurisdiction, 17

Public Opinion: sanction of, not sufficient, 3; application
of Lincoln's saying, 53

Punishment: one form of, inflexible, 22-23

Ratiocination: judicial, 16

R

"Reasoned" (motivees) decisions, 10

Reparation obligations: Attempt to involve America in col-
lection of, by acceptance of part as payment by allies
for advances, 120

"Reservations," comments on, xii

Richet, Dr. Charles: xix

Right to circulate, strangers', 48

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Root, Elihu: on standards of honorable obligation, judicial
responsibility" and author's answers to same, 9

Rouen Peace Congress: xix

Rousseau, J. J.: no conception of economic restraint, xiii-xiv
Rupture of Convention: safeguard against, 54

S

Sanction of Isolation: that the nation is the delinquent and
the nations are segregated are the conditions that make
possible, 20; ease of application, id.; effectiveness of, 22;
opinions: Juatise Brewer, 24; Carnegie, 25; increase in
ratio to disarmament, 22 et seq.; not stand the strain,
without disarmament and arbitration, xii; certain and
known in advance, 2 (13); all nations could be forced to
disarm, under it, 3 (22), xix, 57; Carnegie, xix

Seat of League: Geneva or London, 131-132
Secretary General: unnecessarily exalted personage, 81;
undue haste in appointment, 111; transferring powers

to office and appointment of Englishman, 129; scope of
powers, 130 et seq.

Segregation of Nations: 20

Self-determination ": nations may consolidate or dis-
member, by arrangement, 48; periodical plebiscites in
colonial territory, 46; provision in reference to Alsace-
Lorraine, 48; employment of combination of these
features in "Wilson Points "V-XIII, 138; application
only made in Schleswig-German boundary adjustment, 49
Simon, Premier Jules: xix

Simultaniety: necessity of, in introduction of disarmament,
arbitration and sanction of isolation, xiii, 3-4
Societe pour l'Arbitrage entre Nations, La, xix
Solvency of Nations: system necessary for, 2 (17)
Sovereignty: least possible surrender of, 31
Special alliances: America should avoid, 112, 140
Stay of hostilities: effects of, 43

Stead, William T.: xxi

Sumner, Charles: prize, xvii

Supreme Court of United States as a model, 43

Switzerland: example of confidence without armament, 53
Sympathy: no cause for, 20

T

Territory: Integrity, 31, 48; Colonial, 46; Unorganized, 47
"The Tribunal," or executive body under Plan, 5

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The Tribunal," mode of choosing arbitrators for, 5-6

U

Unit in international intercourse: independent nation, 17;
failure to recognized it in the 2d Hague Conference, was
a departure from practice in international arbitrations
and tended to destroy confidence, 18; attempt to apply
to self-governing" colonies and dominions in Cove-
nant, 80, 110

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United States Supreme Court, as model, 43; comparison of
litigants, 14

Unorganized territory, 47

V

Versaille Treaty wanting in legal and moral force, 119, 120
Victory: A decisive, unfavorable for enduring peace, 49
Vital interests, 30

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