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Existence of International Law
at Issue, Says Executive Council
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The executive council of the American
Society of International Law, at a re
cent meeting declared that the very ex
istence of international law is now at
issue, and summarizes its attitude in the
following report:
The committee on annual meeting has
therefore refrained from calling the
members of the society from the active
work or which most of them are engaged
to meet for the discussion of questions
of law. The only great question of in
ternational law today is whether 'that law
shall continue to exist.
Upon that subject the American” So
ciety of International Law reaffirms the
clear and unvarying support of the Unit
ed States for the rule of law, expressed
in the recognition of international law in
the Fderal Constitution, in th dcisions of
its highest court and in the utterances
of ts chief magistrates and statesmen.
Webster and Cleveland Quoted.
Mr. Webster, while Secretary of State,
made this announcement:
Every nation, on being received, at
her own request, into the circle of
civilized governments, must under
stand that she not only attains rights
of sovereignty and the dignity of na
tional character, but that she binds
herself to the strict and faithful ob
servance of all those principles, laws
and usages which have obtained cur
rency among ciliizod states, and
which have for their object the miti
gation of the miseries of war.
I’resid nt < 'leveland, tn his special
message of 1893. addressed to the Con
gress of the United States, said:
The law of nations is founded upon
reason and justice, and the rules of
conduct governing Individual rela
tions 'between citizens or subjects of
a civilized state are equally applica
ble as between enlightened nations.
The considerations that international
law is without a court for its en
forcement and that obedience to its
commands, practically depends upon
good faith instead of upon the man
date of a superior tribunal only give
additional sanction to the law itself
and brand any deliberate infraction
of it not merely as a wrong, but as a
disgrace A man of true honor pro
tects the unwritten word which b'nd-•
his conscience more scrupulously, if
possible, than he does the bond a
breach of which subieefs him to legal
liabilities, and the United States, in
aiming to maintain itself as one of .
the most enlightened nations, would
do its citizens a gross injustice of it
applied to its international relations
any other than a high standard of
honor and morality.
Protection of Diplomats.
The council w<Ai'd call attention to the
fact that the entire diplomatic and con
sular-service of all nations operates un
der the control and protection of interna
tional law. That, therefore, all the vast
interests within the charge of these agen
cies must be left unserved and unadmin
istered if the beneficent provisions of in
ternational law are abandoned or disre
garded. They further venture to call at
tention to the fact that more than two
thirds of the surface of the globe is cov
ered by the high seas, that no law is
current thereon excc.it international law;
that noble branch of law. which Presi
dent Wilson on April 2. 1917. addrressing
the Congress of th* United States, de
clared had its "origin in the attempt to
set up some law which would be re
spected and observed upon the seas,
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where lay the free hghways of the
world." “By painful stage after stage,"
he said, “has that law been built up with
meager enough results indeed after all
was accomplished that could be accomp
lished, but always with a clear view at
least of what the heart and conscience of
mankind demanded.”
Chaos if Allowed to Lapse.
To say no more than has been said as
to international relations upon land if
this one law and common rule which
guards the traffic of the seas is allowed
to lapse in that cast and preponderant
domain, no measure of right and justice,
no rule of humanity or restraint will re
main, only the desolating condition which
the vulgate ascribes to hell, Übi nullus
ordo Bed sempiternus horror
Therefore, those just and wise doc
trines by which international relations
are guided, humanized, and controlled,
can not be debilitated or abandoned.
Therfore, they must be taught by our
scholars, learned by our rising youth, de
clared and defined by our courts, an
nounc'd by our Congress, enlarged by
our treaties, and enforced by our Chief
Executive.
Therefore, at need, our Army upon the
land and our Navy upon the sea. with a
spirit and devotion which have never de
clined. must maintain and defend them,
not for the good of this nation or this
time alone, but for the good of all nations
and all men. now and forevermore.
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started to return and feeling Rain-in-the-
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