¹ The essay was originally delivered as an address at a special convention of the Hague Academy called to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the gift by Andrew Carnegie to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

² 2 See editorial, New York Times, June 29, 1963, p. 22, quoting the Chairman of the Athens Conference as stating that: “Every international law of worldwide application could be printed in one volume. And the tragedy is that even that hasn’t been done.” The editorial itself goes on to say that there can be no international law in the absence of a supernational body with enforcement power, and then says present international law fits into the category of the French Declaration on the Eights of Man or the American Bill of Eights. In reading this, one wonders about the assumptions of American lawyers in referring to their mission to spread international law elsewhere.