Policy of the United States respecting the Development of International Adjudication

To those observers who feel the compulsion to seek in the phenomena and institutions of the international community analogies to the forms of national government, it has ever been of interest to look hopefully for evidences in the international sphere of the evolution of permanent organs and functions which could be considered to be "true", albeit rudimentary, governmental institutions. Regardless of the question of the utility of such an effort, it may assuredly be admitted that the phenomenon of international adjudication is rather closer to its domestic counterpart than are other institutional phenomena on the international scene. It may well be that this has aeon the result of the basic kinship between administrative functions generally, whether exercised on the international, national, provincial, or municipal levels. If one ventures to assume that the search for domestic government counterparts In the International scene stems from a concern (either favorable or unfavorable in predisposition ) respecting the evolution of international government, or even, world government, the problem becomes somewhat ore acute and the search more utilitarian in motive. Should this be ranted, it could not be of secondary importance to observe and evaluate the role that the United States has had in the development of the institution of international adjudication, since its influence on the actions proposed and taken by the community of states on so vital a matter was necessarily significant in the past and must be even more so in the future. It is to this aspect of the situation that the present work addresses itself. To the extant that it is successful in laying open the American record at the most critical points in the evolutionary process. It may be of some value in suggesting that problems that yet lie ahead before the institution of international adjudication can reach its fullest development.