MOURNS MISTY THOUGHT ON INTERNATIONAL LAW

"On no subject except theology has there been so much sloppy writing and nebulous speculation as on the subject of international law," quoted Professor Manley Ottmer Hudson in his lecture on "Lawyers and International Peace" given to law students yesterday in the First Parish Church. This address by Professor Hudson, who is the Bemis Professor of International Law, was the ninth of the series of addresses on the general subject of "Religion and the Law."

"The war," said Professor Hudson, "has left us a legacy of two serious problems in connection with international law, although Mr. Root says we are ten times better off than five years ago. These two problems are the necessity of the renovation of the philosophical bases of international law and the necessity of conscious legislation in regard to international law. The first of these needs represents the intention and the second the actual vehicle.

"There is a tendency for international law to separate into different codes. The international law that is usually thought of is that which has held sway in Western Europe and which is now generally recognized in the civilized nations, we mean ourselves," added Professor Hudson.

"The two great contributions of the nineteenth century to international law," he said in tracing the history of his subject, "are the divorcement of international law and religion and the widening of the circle of nations affected by the law."