ABSTRACT
Covenants in restraint of war and other agencies for the preservation of peace will never be completely effective unless all that formerly could usefully and, in a sense, properly be attained by war is rendered attainable in the future by other means. Where a claim is of a legal character an adequate Court is already available for its decision. The necessity for appropriate intervention from time to time in the interests of minority populations has already been generally recognized, and provision has been made for according it in several international treaties. The potential sovereignty of the whole world lies with the Great Powers acting collectively; and a central administrative authority, if it is to be stable and efficient, must substantially and practically be mainly controlled by them. An administrative jurisdiction will be amply justified by its necessity in order that the supreme object of the prevention of war may be attained.
