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Show CHARLES . HUGHES DISCUSSES JHE WAR Says Nations Must Recogp-nize Recogp-nize and Maintain Supremacy Su-premacy of Law. LONG BEACH, N. V., May :S. Charles E. Hughes, speaking at the national conference con-ference on foreign relations of the United States here tonight, asserted that if "the world Is to be made safe for democracy It must be a world in which the nations recognize and maintain the supremacy of law." Mr. Hughes said he had been considering consider-ing the means for developing inirfna-tional inirfna-tional litw and for the interpretation and application of rules of law. "But." be added, "the purposes, when this war is ended, will reach beyond the function of law and the aim will be in every practicable way to provide sn fe-gua fe-gua ids aeainst the recurrem-e of war. This suggests the advisability of establishing estab-lishing International instrumentalities of concilia tion which can deal with questions ques-tions that are not .InsticeaHe in character charac-ter and make recommendations in the interests of peaceful settlement. "Tiie function of such a rouncil would not be d eels ton, but suggestion and advice." ad-vice." Mr. Hughes declared tha t the United States would undoubtedly use its utmost' endeavor to bring about the establishment establish-ment of a real court of international Justice. Jus-tice. He expressed the belief that it would be idle to expect that in any conceivable con-ceivable arrangement this country would abandon the Monroe doctrine. ! "Is it too much to expect," Mr. Hugties asked, "that our historic policy, in its essential features, should be accepted by : the nations, and may we not contemplate contem-plate the working out of plans for an in- teriu tional organization in the belief that its acceptance will in itself conduce to peace while facilitating our co-operation in Its maintenance?" |