THE that the actual facts concerning international relations and official international cooperation constitute the best possible arguments for lasting peace and improved international understanding. Its activities are, therefore, focused upon the task of making these facts available in clear and undistorted form. Stacks World Peace FOREWORD Public attention in this country is now focused upon Mr. Kellogg's proposals for a general treaty for "outlawing" war. At the same time Congress has before it resolutions looking toward drawing in the future a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate wars. Simultaneously there is a move toward restating the old international rules of maritime warfare, including the law of neutral rights and duties. Thus run the parallel movements in the United States to prevent wars and to regulate them when they break out. No future war can be unaffected by the new international situation created by the existence of the League of Nations. The United States can not ignore facts. The question is whether the United States - even without joining the League will cooperate fully, not only in the international effort to avert wars, but also in the effort to perfect a new world order in which a nation with aggressive designs must contemplate facing an indignant and cooperating world instead of one in which it can secure the bountiful assistance which the old law of neutrality permitted. The United States holds one of the key positions; much depends upon the attitude which this Government will take. The following study purports merely to indicate the problems arising out of this present situation. The practices of the last great war may be an index to measures which might be taken in applying the sanctions provided for in the League Covenant. The writer, however, is far from prophesying that the emergency provided for in Art. 16 of the Covenant will soon arise or that it will be met by a testing out of international police measures. The indications are rather that for some time to come the effort will be to avoid the issue. The current public interest in restatements of the laws of maritime warfare, in the future of neutrality, in "League wars" and in the "freedom of |