Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 40: October, 1939 Referring to the Neutrality Bill, President Wriston said that if it is in substance a refutation of sovereign rights, it is an ironic fact that we should be willing to yield them up to keep out of war and have been and still are unwilling to yield up any sovereign rights to keep the peace. He was especially critical of the United States and the World Court. It is as though Jacob had labored fourteen years for the hand of Rachel, had fulfilled his labors, and jilted the girl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.