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| as to be able to decide which actions will
ultimately serve the great aims of mankind? Within the limited scope of the present trial we see how acts of a seemingly arbitrary design become parts of a greater chain of events as ruled by a necessity superior to individual desires and powers. International law is always only what is being realized and acknowledged as such by civilized nations. Two different kinds of international law do not exist as maintained by evil-minded skeptics: that of the victors and that of the conquered. Only one international law exists: a true law that has been realized and acknowledged. Even though we look upon the work of the United Nations commission to bring about the planned convention for prevention of power politics against whole nations with unqualified sympathy, and even though we are filled with deep gratitude towards the work of the "Committee against Mass Expulsion" in which noble minded men have united in New York, yet we cannot adopt the view that the future text of a convention which is to be agreed upon — or can we say which we hope will be agreed upon — and the aim of philanthropists be acknowledged as existing international law. |
