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...trade (establishing connections abroad, etc.), which fall within his own Department, but in other Departments as well. Presidents Harding and Coolidge both have leaned upon him in solving some of their most onerous problems. He is called upon in labor troubles (in coal mining, etc.), in the settlement of War Debts (he is one of the Debt Funding Commission); he is Chairman of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission; he is an expert on economic conditions in Europe and the Orient. The Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office were recently transferred to his control. He will probably have a controlling...
...have been termed justiciable or strictly legal questions, the reluctance of the larger Powers to make jurisdiction in these cases obligatory is to be regretted. It is an indication of the fact that we are still a long way from the substitution of amicable for belligerent methods in the settlement of international disputes. One of the necessary weaknesses of the court consists in the very fact that it is not likely to prove an effective agency in removing for a long time to come the bane of war from the recognized institutions of international relations. This weakness goes...
Perhaps Locarno is a symbol of the realization of this fact. The unwillingness to submit to judicial settlement is conditioned by underlying factors inherent in the existing international system, which persuades nations to decline to submit what they consider important issues to the arbitration of impartial judges. Note the almost universal exception of questions of national honor, independence and vital interests, from arbitration treaties. The judicial process is weakened by a stipulation that there shall be no submission of anything important...
Unfortunately the common assumption that the nations seriously desire an international court for the settlement of their disputes, is not altogether well founded. Nations desire an international tribunal and have had no difficulty in establishing one ad hoc when the occasion arises, when the dispute is unimportant or would not justify the expense of war, or when political considerations dictate submission to arbitration rather than recourse of war--in short, when they feel that they have more to gain by arbitration or other forms of peaceful settlement, such as mediation, than by war. The hundreds of arbitration that have been...
...whether the United States should not "join" it or not can hardly be placed on the ground that peace will thereby either be promoted or retarded. That issue, I believe, is unreal and fanciful. Perhaps we ought to aid any movement that even looks to the judicial settlement or disputes, but when one of the announced inducements for our joining the court is that we would never have to submit a case to it, encouraging an inference that probably we never would, one may properly question the purpose that it is intended that our joining shall subserve. Is it merely...