Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . v LEAGUE OF DREAMS OR LEAGUE OF REALITIES ? A SUPERNATIONAL JURY AND POLICE FORCE1 Sir Herbert Stephen, in his article entitled "The League of Dreams" (in the January number of this Review), has detected and exposed with incisive directness the heel of Achilles in the armour of argument with which Lord Robert Cecil defends the League of Nations against the assaults of its critics. Lord Robert Cecil apparently renounces all claim to coercive enforcement of the decisions of such a League; limits its power of preventing war in the future to an agreement or treaty among the members of the League to delay their decision to go to war until the casus belli has been submitted to arbitration; and reliesultimately upon "organised and concentrated international public opinion " to take the place of force in carrying out the decrees of the League. Sir Herbert Stephen rightly maintains that if public opinion represents in the body politic the mind, the court of law represents the hand; and. that there must be force to back the decisions of the court: 1 For a fuller exposition of the scheme advocated for a League of Nations I must refer to the following publications: The Next War, Wilsonism and Anti-Wilsonism, with An Open Letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, published by the Cambridge University Press, October, 1918; also Aristodemocracy, etc., London and New York, 1916. At a still earlier date the same scheme was put forward and upheld in The Expansion of Western Ideals and the World's Peace, London and New York, 1899. In this book was published my address on "The English-Speaking Brotherhood" (delivered at the Imperial Institute, London, 1898, Lord Rosebery in the chair) which was designed to bring the United States and Great Britain more closely together as the immediate cent...