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Show WOULD MAKE PEACE FOR WORLD EASIER NEW YORK, April 9. Representative Representa-tive John Sharp Williams of Mississippi has written to the executive committee an explanation of his inability to attend at-tend the peace congress. The Senatorial Sena-torial campaign in his State keeps him away. In his letter Mr. Williams makes the suggestion, which he says he has talked over with President "Roosevelt, that, each country pay "a good substantial salary" to the members of The Hague court sppointed by it, give them a long tenure of office, either for life or for ten or fifteen years, and forbid them to act aa counsel for any nation while so serving. This, he says, would enable each country to select lawyers of international . reputation, who can make a long work, if not a life work, of the objects set before the court. "My idea," he continued "is to make "the court of The Hague an ami-: pbictyonic council of the civilized world. I used this phrase in a letter to the President and it seemed to please him very much. Tho details - can be worked out easily by a committee, keeping keep-ing the general object in view." |