not really a
League of Nations but of States. The ideal of the national
State 13

IX. The two reasons why the establishment of a new League of
Nations is conditioned by the utter defeat of the Central
Powers 15

X. Why--in a sense--the new League of Nations may be said to
have already started its career 16

XI. The impossibility of the demand that the new League of
Nations should create a Federal World State 18

XII. The demand for an International Army and Navy 20

XIII. The new League of Nations cannot give itself a
constitution of a state-like character, but only one _sui
generis_ on very simple lines 22

XIV. The three aims of the new League of Nations, and the
four problems to be faced and solved in order to make possible
the realisation of these aims 23

SECOND LECTURE: ORGANISATION AND LEGISLATION
OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 25

I. The Community of civilised States, the at present
existing League of Nations, is a community without any
organisation, although there are plenty of legal rules for the
intercourse of the several States one with another 28

II. The position of the Great Powers within the Community of
States is a mere political fact not based on Law 29

III. The pacifistic demand or a Federal World State in order
to make the abolition of war a possibility 31

IV. Every attempt at organising the desired new League of
Nations must start from, and keep intact, the independence and
equality of the several States, with the consequence that the
establishment of a central political authority above the
sovereign States is an impossibility 32

V. The development of an organisation of the Community of
States began before the outbreak of the World War and is to be
found in the establishment of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at the Hague by the First Hague Peace Conference of
1899. But more steps will be necessary to turn the hitherto
unorganised Community of States into an organised League of
Nations