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need to be the possibility of the use of even stronger 

 police pressure. 



But it is certain that if an international organiza- 

 tion is to succeed, police power must be used very 

 rarely. The attempts of the British government to 

 coerce the American colonies or the Irish people are 

 conspicuous as a demonstration of the frequent fail- 

 ure of massed force to compose complex human 

 maladjustments. It is noteworthy that such enforce- 

 ment has not been used in the long and successful 

 operation of our own Supreme Court. 



Practically, it is possible that nations will join in 

 an international enterprise which is limited to con- 

 sultation and judicial review of all disputes long be- 

 fore they will relinquish any other phase of their 

 jealously guarded sovereignty to such an interna- 

 tional organization. We may even be able to work 

 out a method of international co-operation based 

 entirely on patience, wisdom and justice, though in 

 the light of past experience this seems at present 

 unlikely. 



Such a world organization will never be perfect. 

 Man is not. Neither is the government of Chicago, of 

 Illinois, of our United States. And yet who would 

 not prefer to live in Chicago, even back in the gang- 

 ster era of the nineteen-twenties, rather than in the 

 period of greater individual freedom for privileged 



