DEFECT IN SYSTEM
FAILURE TO PREVENT CONFLICTS
“The most serious defect in the system is its failure to prevent the outbreak' of the appalling conflicts in 1914 and 1939. But the blame for that rests not upon International Law but upon the society of states itself. Law can develop no faster, than the society which it governs permits it to develop. The society to which International Law applies is mainly one of Sovereign States. War ought to be necessary only for the purpose of genuine self-preservation, or as a police measure authorised by the general body of states. So far as the prevention of unnecessary war goes, states have not yet sufficiently cultivated a law-abid-ing spirit. By this, I mean a reasoned conviction that law is better than individual force for securing what is reckoned as a tolerable standard of life in the community.”—Dr. P. H. Winfield.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4563, 22 April 1942, Page 8
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147DEFECT IN SYSTEM Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4563, 22 April 1942, Page 8
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