Author: Charles Evans Hughes

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-03-02

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781397346292

Excerpt from The Permanent Court of International Justice: An Address by Honourable Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State of the United States, Delivered Before the American Society of International Law, at Washington, D. C., April 27, 1923 First. Why should there be an international court? The mani fest answer is that there are controversies between nations which should be decided by a court. There are controversies calling for the examination of facts and the application of principles of law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.