THE FORCE TO PUT BEHIND THE COURT
In much of this discussion reference has been made to the power to put behind a World Court in order to make it effective. Now I wish to speak briefly of economic pressure as the most truly international force and as the most efficient possible force to put behind this proposed World Court. That great leader and teacher of Ohio and the country, Dr. Washington Gladden, said to me yesterday, “The world on the old basis is bankrupt. It must be reorganized on a new basis.” Appreciation of that fact, it seems to me, is the chief significance of this Congress. And the world can be reorganized on a new basis if it will avail itself of one of its greatest forces, the force of international commerce, which can be applied as economic pressure to establish justice and to serve civilization.