LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTA.TOR]
SIR,—Fully agreeing with you that arbitration must rest on an ultimate " sanction " of force, I would still ask : "May not this force, too, be international P " Nations are like indivi- duals; each desires his own advantage. Yet individuals have found it pay best to give up carrying swords, and taking what they want by force; they maintain a police instead, and obey laws which promote the general interest, and which are sternly enforced against those who transgress them. Why may it not be so some day with nations P The dream of an inter- national police force cannot appear wilder to us than our pre- sent state of things would have seemed to a savage whose only law was his own right arm, or even to a robber-knight of the
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