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International ArbitrationBahá’u’lláh also advocated the establishment of an internationalcourt of arbitration, so that differences arising between nationsmight be settled in accordance with justice and reason, insteadof by appeal to the ordeal of battle.In a letter to the Secretary of the Mohonk Conference onInternational Arbitration, in August 1911, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said:—About fifty years ago in the Book of Aqdas, Bahá’u’lláhcommanded people to establish universal peace and summonedall the nations to the divine banquet of internationalarbitration, so that the questions of boundaries, of nationalhonor and property, and of vital interests between nationsmight be settled by an arbitral court of justice, and that nonation would dare to refuse to abide by the decisions thusarrived at. If any quarrel between two nations it must beadjudicated by this international court and be arbitrated anddecided upon like the judgment rendered by the Judge betweentwo individuals. If at any time any nation dares to breaksuch a decision, all the other nations must arise to put downthis rebellion.Again, in one of His Paris talks in 1911, He said:—A supreme tribunal shall be established by the peoples andgovernments of every nation, composed of members electedfrom each country and government. The members of thisgreat council shall assemble in unity. All disputes of an internationalcharacter shall be submitted to this court, its workbeing to arrange by arbitration everything which otherwisewould be a cause of war. This mission of this tribunal wouldbe to prevent war.During the quarter of a century preceding the establishmentof the League of Nations a permanent Court of Arbitration was