Let us briefly examine economic pressure. Of what does it consist and how
could it be applied? The most effective factors in world-wide economic
pressure, such as would be required to compel nations to take justiciable
issues to a World Court for decision and to submit to its decrees, are
a group of international forces. To-day money is international because
in all civilized countries it has gold as the common basis. Credit based
on gold is international. Commerce based on money and on credit is
international. Then the amazing network of agencies by which money and
credit and commerce are employed in the world are also international.
Take the stock exchanges, the cables, the wireless, the international
postal service and the wonderful modern facilities for communication and
inter-communication—all these are international forces. They are common
to all nations. In the truest sense they are independent of race, of
language, of religion, of culture, of government and of every other human
limitation. That is one of their chief merits in making them the most
effective possible power, used in the form of economic pressure to put
behind a World Court.