Abstract

The World Court-"A Polite Gesture"

The proponents of the World Court have been driven to take two positions inconsistent with each other and leading to an anomalous result. In the first place they are seeking to hold Republican votes by attempting to demonstrate that the Court is not a subsidiary of the League of Nations. Proof of this is necessary to enable the Republican Party to carry water on both shoulders, as its platform pledges it to go into the Court and at the same time to have nothing to do with the League. In order to maintain plausibly that no relationship is created the Court advocates contend that there is a clear difference between the members composing the League acting as individual states and the same states acting officially as members of the League.