Part 15

International Court of First Instance, 64; manning of proposed bench to serve as, 64.

International Court of Justice, 18, 28, 65-68; manning of, 65; proposed permanent bench of, 65, 66; proposed special benches of, for different cases, 66.

International Courts, claims of all States in manning of, 64; difficulties of manning of, 65; precedents of, 64.

International Executive, why impossible, 19, 41.

International Government, why impossible, 19.

International Law, a book law at present, 43; and League of Nations interdependent, 6, 33; complied with often without Courts, 60; grew by custom during Middle Ages, 8; not in being in antiquity, 6; progress of, 33, 35, 38; universal and general, difference between, 44.

International Legislation, 38, 41-48; a by-product only in the past, 42; difficulties of, created by conflicting interests of States, 44; difficulties of, created by different methods of interpretation and construction, 45; difficulties of, created by the fact that a majority vote cannot create a statute, 44; difficulties of, created by the language question, 43; meaning of the term, 41; possible even without International Courts, 42, 60; possible only by agreement of all the States, 42; wide field open for, 43.

International Statutes, cannot be created by majority vote, 44; interpretation and construction of, 45; what are? 42.

Internationalism, growth of, 12.

Law-making treaties, what are? 42.

'La France vaut bien une messe,' 78.

League of Nations, 3, 8; aims defined, 23, 28, 35-36; and International Law interdependent, 6; career in a sense started already, 8, 16; conception of, very old, 6; demand for, universal, 11; impossibility of state-like organisation of, 36; no unanimity concerning its aims or organisation, 18; organisation of, demanded, 31; problems connected with, 24, 28; seven principles of, which ought to be adopted, 39-41; so-called, but League of States is meant, 13; starting point of organisation of, 33, 36, 39; constitution sui generis of, a necessity, 22, 33; what is new in the now desired, 11; when it would be an organised community, 11, 34.

Marini, Antoine, 8.

Mediation, International. See International Council of Conciliation.

Militarism, conception of, 15; Prussian, 16.

Nation, the, a product of historical development, 10, 14; conception of, 13, 14; not to be confounded with race, 13-14.

Nations, not to be confounded with States, 13, 14.

Nationality, principle of, 14, 32.

'Natura non facit saltus,' 5.

Naturalists, the School of, 62.

Oppenheim, letter of Foreign Office concerning Article 23(h) of the Hague Regulations to Professor, 52-55.

Pacifists, 31.

Parliament, International, why impossible, 18, 19.

Permanent Court of Arbitration, International, 34; establishment of, by the First Peace Conference, 61.

Permanent International Commissions of the Bryan Peace Treaties, 71.

Podiebrad, 8.

Police, International, 6, 41.

Politis on Article 23(h) of the Hague Regulations concerning Land Warfare, 49, 55.