Towards International Justice. By F. N. Keen. (G. Allen
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This collection of papers attracts us by the clarity with which the author, as an experienced counsel, explains both his own projects and those which have been adopted in the League and the World Court. He Was one Of those Who, early in the War, proposed a League to prevent future wars,
and his essay of 1915 on "The World in Alliance," reprinted here, shows how unduly ambitious some of those preliminary proposals were. As Professor Gilbert Murray observes in his introduction, we are fortunate in having been spared such an international army under the control of the League as Mr. Keen desired in 1915; the existence of that army, under a French commander, would have intensified the perils, grave as they are, of the present situation. In the math, Mr. Keen's suggestions are sound enough. He is right in emphasizing the League's need for publicity. Like Mr. Baldwin, it can do no more, in the last resort, than appeal to world opinion.
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