Show natina natio ial affairs ny BY r 1 oo clo not seem to ne DC breaking j right tor for the world court so tar far as the increase of its prestige in the united states is concerned just as international I 1 ter nation 11 organizations organization were getting redy re dy Y to make a clauve to put uncle sam in the court with the root proviso along came the decision putting th thumbs un I 1 b 3 don down arx on tile the aistro german customs union pact the proposed customs agreement agie ement ti bil leny lefly was for an elimination or of tariff bat runnels I 1 bets between germany and austria france and italy opposed the union stating it meant the absorption of little austria into the german le public the aus I 1 and OcI mans denied this claim ing ilig that they were only seeking to carry out the suggestions or of ft a prominent french statesman that tariff tana barriens barr bar teis in europe should be eliminated 0 0 be that as it may along ca came me the world court and by a vote of 0 8 to 7 i decided that the customs agreement was outlawed there la Is nothing thing i in this barring the fact that the change i 0 of one ona vote could have altered the late of two european nations and perhaps of the entire continent but there Is a real significance and that is in the lineup of the judges to in the vote the latin bloc including france italy and poland a staunch french ally linert lined up together while germany of course and six other nations were on the other side it becomes immediately evident in ing the returns that many ot of the judges 3 voted along political and national lines i rather than along lines of abstract justice I 1 even the new york limes strongly advocates the adherence of th i united states to the world court says ait it must be admitted however that this I 1 almost equal division of the world court coes cloes not heighten its apparently political questions although the world court specifically renounces any right or intention to deal with them got mixed up aith ft ath the legal questions some of the judges seem to have given as much weight to public consequences OS as they did to legal argument then there was the significant gr grouping ou P of judges on oil the one side or the other strongly suggesting a national interest tt rest behind the decision of at least leas t a few of the judges all this has h 3 s in fairness to be recognized as a somewhat disquieting feature in the handling of if this case the pro league baltimore sun say says th that at this sort of thing Is not in accord with our ideas of judicial impartiality while the new york world telegram III of tile the scripps howard chain pro court and says almost apologetically it looks to us as it if political considerations side rations may have influenced some of the judges that Is unfortunate but no sane supporter of the court has ever that it Is perfect the new york post regards the decision as un publik rut fortunate and the philadelphia ledger bluntly says the thoroughly eight to 1110 w decision in this case was I 1 satisfactory it bore w what hat are widely wa erbb unmistakable le traces ot of carded as of political find and the pr pre stiff eltise the court will suffer irom from it 0 40 3 i which are OP those newspapers american participation in europe europe the of affairs tire are of course critical bit aroln I 1 ranging decision the c criticisms i ter denunciation to 1100 count li what Wha taws does cou i ton toll herald declares aed W that tho the deciding late ote enral tri III fagus MB court itself the alie supposedly tool of bunal stands revealed as the means 31 1 world politics not by BUY any 1 0 aal i jv I ideal instrument of irrelia WM tice which its delusive lewwe sincee cf its i test first great FOT in this col icv as the new yort york 7 luried W 1 I se c cat dent remarks tile the judges 1 of their co 1 ding to tile the political calP arned by b the countries they were not go bior bat oell y of the cast say a would legal aspects happen to tile the tal gifted this tm stat r a in doo to v ere dispute international be involved in the le league ague 04 V 0 fr question a great rs am aa I 1 oil that is a of tilis 1 they read v I 1 be cans are R asking as by so oc o c ca allce ca ioa fortunate clec slon ision Is a question quest ue friends of the coul I 1 t and it united gt asked in the t tt he which will be senate a great many throes coming winter |