. Review of reviews and world's work . y destructive criticism, butundertook to set forth at least three methodsof averting war without setting up the ma-chinery of a League of Nations: (1) Com-pulsory arbitration for all disputes undersome such plan as that provided for in theInternational Prize Court, or the unratifiedAmerican-British and American-French ar-bitration treaties of 1911, or the Olney-Pauncefote treaty of 1897, or a union of thebest in all of them; (2) alliance with thestrongest power or two powers of the worldfor mutual protection; or (3) an interna-tional league, formed among
. Review of reviews and world's work . y destructive criticism, butundertook to set forth at least three methodsof averting war without setting up the ma-chinery of a League of Nations: (1) Com-pulsory arbitration for all disputes undersome such plan as that provided for in theInternational Prize Court, or the unratifiedAmerican-British and American-French ar-bitration treaties of 1911, or the Olney-Pauncefote treaty of 1897, or a union of thebest in all of them; (2) alliance with thestrongest power or two powers of the worldfor mutual protection; or (3) an interna-tional league, formed among all the nationsof the world (not some of them) with aconstitution providing that war is declaredto be an international crime and that anynation engaging in war, except in self-defensewhen actually attacked, shall be punished bythe world as an international criminal. Surha league, according to Senator Knox, would carry with it a miiiitnuin of loss of oursovereignty; it would relieve us from participa- 422 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. THE STARS AND STRIPES FIRSTFrom the World (New York) tion in the broils of Europe; it would preserve theMonroe Doctrine and save America from the re-sults of European aggression and intrigue; itwould reduce to the minimum the causes of war;and would make the waging thereof otherwisethan in self-defense when attacked a publiccrime, punishable by the combined forces of theworld. Mr. Tafts Advocacy Replying to Senator Knox, ex-PresIdentWilliam Howard Taft said in an addressat New York, on March 11: The President and Senate are to ratify thiscovenant, if it be ratified, by virtue of their con-stitutional power to make treaties. This power,as the Supreme Court has held, enables them tobind the United States to a contract with anothernation on any subject-matter usually the subject-matter of treaties between nations, subject to thelimitation that the treaty may not change the formof Government of the United States, and may notpart with territory belong
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