Problems of the International Settlement (Classic Reprint)

The Hague Conference shall be given a permanent organization and meet at regular intervals. 5. The States shall agree to submit all their disputes to peaceful settlement. For this purpose there shall be created, in addition to the existent Hague Court of A rbitration, (a) a permanent Court of International Justice, (b) a permanent international Council of Investigation and Conciliation. 6. The States shall bind themselves to take concerted action, diplomatic, economic or military, in case any State should resort to military measures instead of submitting the dispute to judicial decision or to the mediation of the Council of Investigation and Conciliation. 7. The States shall agree to reduce their armaments. 8. In order to facilitate the reduction of naval armaments, the right of capture shall be abolished and the freedom of the seas assured. 9. Foreign policy shall be under the effective control of the parliaments of the respective nations. .S ecret treaties shall be void. With this programme may be compared that of the French Association de la Paix par le Droit, given on p. 200 below. The circumstances of the war having prevented the meeting of international conferences to discuss and elaborate this programme, the method was adopted of appointing committees to collect information and draw up reports on the various topics involved. Hence the Recueil de Rapports, of which four large volumes have now been published, and from which the present selection has been made.
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