settled on principles of law. They are to be submitted under
the second plank for hearing and recommendation of com-
promise just as our Fur Seal Arbitration with England.

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3. The third or Force plank gives vitality to the platform.
It appeals to practical men. It provides for economic
pressure and a Police Force to hold off members of the
League from war until the cooling and curative influence of
the League's judicial procedure may have time to operate,

No matter how law-abiding a community, neither the
statutes nor judgments of the Courts enforce themselves so
as to dispense with police or sheriffs. The latter may be
called on infrequently to suppress disorder or to remove
obstruction to judicial decree. The fact that they are
present, however, in the community, or in the Court, with
the power to act and the intention to act when necessary,
stays would-be disturbers or obstructors. Fear of police
action is usually effective without actual use of force.
"They also serve who only stand and wait."

4. No one will doubt the feasibility of the fourth plank.
Successful Congresses for declaring the principles of Inter-
national Law and enlarging their scope have been held
before. Such was the Congress at Paris in 1856 in which
privateering was abolished.

The agreement of all the powerful nations of the world
to unite their armies and their navies to resist the prema-
ture hostilities of one or more nations against another must
increase the binding effect of the obligation of the League
members not to rush into sudden war. The fear of forcible
restraint would thus, in most cases, render actual resort to it
unnecessary.

The League is to be a world alliance. We have had

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