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single dispute in hand may be adjusted. What is required 

 is therefore not a Court of Arbitration, but something 

 tantamount in principle to an international judicial tribunal." 

 After quoting Mill, Wheaton, and Vattel, he says : " I think 

 I am not mistaken when I say, that the tide of intelligent 

 feeling in this country has recently turned in favour of the 

 view that a judicial system for the interpretation of inter- 

 national law affords the only grand expositor of it in the 

 settlement of international disputes, and as such sooner or 

 later will ultimately be! adopted by civilised nations.'' The 

 italics are Mr. Seebohm's. — (" International Law Reform, 

 1871.'') 



i-WOJE. DE LAVEL^YE, 

 PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE. 



'' The hour will arrive for the establishment of a federation of 

 nations with a Supreme Court, like that of the United 

 States, the decisions of which will be carried out by 

 authority; but it is not yet come. True civilisation, true 

 Christian sentiment, do not as yet exert a sufficient general 

 and undisputed sway over nations." — (" Causes of War, and 

 the Means of Reducing their Number, 1874.") 



THOMAS DE ST. GEORGES-ARMSTRONG. 

 " S'il est vrai qu'il n'existe pas de Cour Supreme internationale, 

 Idgalement ^tablie pour r^gler et aplanir les diffdrends survenus 

 entre les Etats ; nous croyons ndanmoins reconnaitre son 

 r61e, tacitement exerc6, dans le concert des grandes puissances, 

 qui ont accoutum^ de se rdunir en Congrfes, en vue d'ap- 

 porter une solution definitive aux questions Europdennes. 

 * * * * Lgg precedents que nous avons successivement 

 invoqu6s, et, d'autre part, la consideration de la forme et de 

 la constitution imparfaite de ce tribunal supreme auquel 

 I'acquiescement et I'adhesion deiiberee des nations a donne 

 une pleine autorite, nous mfenent a deduire la necessite d'un 

 tribunal supreme d'appellation pour resoudre les divergences 

 internationales, et nous mfenent aussi \ esperer que ce tribunal 

 s'organisera suivant nos voeux avec le temps. * * * * 

 On aurait de cette sorte une Cour Supreme de justice ana- 

 logue \ celle des Etats-Unis, qui a ses tribunaux de premiere 



