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English and the French are so proficient in their in- 

 ternal affairs. In international as in legal circles, we 

 must have some peaceful means of declaring a de- 

 funct nation to be in fact bankrupt or unable to 

 manage its own business, and to distribute its assets 

 among the proper creditors. 



When such a system is installed there will need 

 to be not only the means for international consulta- 

 tion, and a hearing for the troubles of the world; 

 there will also be the necessity for courts of inter- 

 national justice. One of these may well grow out of 

 the present World Court at Geneva, patterned on 

 the Supreme Court of this country; another might 

 be a development of the international court of arbi- 

 tration which has been located for many years at 

 The Hague. 



At this point we come to a serious divergence of 

 opinion. Should these courts be supported by police 

 power? As a realistic biologist it seems to me that in- 

 ternational police force will probably be a necessity 

 in those cases when a nation or a section of a nation 

 attempts to raise itself in the peck-order of govern- 

 ments by direct action rather than waiting for the 

 results of the more just but slower pressure of world 

 opinion. Much of the police activities should be 

 limited to such duties as are now exercised by our 

 federal marshals, but in my judgment there would 



