INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND THE NATIONS.
There are many people who do not understand how laws are made. The only laws that we can be assured can be kept those of the crystallisation of public opinion. For this reason international law is at present in a state of growth. It is made up of the precedents that take place in the action among nations. What the nations need to do is to see that appeal to Law is more efficacious than an appeal to force. This can be accomplished only by establishing and confirming international law. 'What most people do not seem to realise is that law cannot be promulgated from authority and expect to be obeyed. It must grow from precedent to precedent. The growth of international law is necessarily slow r , as with all nations it is considered a virtue to be ready to fight. All things that have a stable basis and cannot be shaken are matters of growth, and while the growth of international law seems very slow it is growing, and in course of time will be dependable. The best hope of the world for peace is a “reliance upon law, and resort to it as a cheaper and better method than that of force.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1661, 10 September 1925, Page 2
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