Calcutta University Readership Lectures 1927. Current International Co-Operation

Of course this correspondence can- not be pressed too far; past experience had shown that some departures were necessary; the efforts of the Hague Conferences had focussed attention on the conflict between the political dogma of state equality on the one hand and the political fact of the hegemony of certain Powers on the other hand; and with the ending of the World War, the time was ripe for expe [...] With the close of the War, the effort to establish a new court of justice was resumed, and the creation of the Assembly and the Council of the League of Nations afforded IM avenue of escape from the impasse of 1907. [...] It was a very lad86 CURRENT INTERNATIONAL proposal of the Advisory Commission of Jurists which sat at The Hague in the summer of 1920, on the invitation of the Council of the League of Nations, that the judges of a new court should be elected by the Assembly and Council jointly. [...] Account was of course taken of the great advance in inter- national organization, for correlation between the work of the new Court and that of the Assembly and Council had been provided for in the Covenant of the League of Nations. [...] Moreover, the members of the Old, Court perform an essential office 'in conne tion with the election of judges of the deIN88 CURRENT INTERNATIONAL Court ; acting as national groups, they must nominate the candidates who in the first instance are to be voted on by the Assembly and the Council of the League of Nations in electing the judges of the new Court.