Warren Harding: “Some critics have indeed protested that it was class legislation.”

The big thing is the firm establishment of the Court and our cordial adherence thereto. All else is mere detail.

If war must come again—God grant that it shall not!—then we must draft all of the nation in carrying on.

Through such effort as this there will be opportunity for a great service.

I do not know that such a court will be unfailing in the avoidance of war, but I know it is a step in the right direction and will prove an advance toward international peace for which the reflective conscience of mankind is calling.