Some believed that the application of legal justice through the medium of international tribunals and commissions was the only practical method of settling disputes which might become causes of war.

And some emphasized the importance of a mutual agreement to postpone actual hostilities until there could be an investigation as to the merits of a controversy.

There were thus two general classes of powers proposed which were in the one case political and in the other juridical.

The cleavage of opinion was along these lines, although it possibly was not recognized by the general public.

It was not only shown in the proposed powers, but also in the proposed form of the organization, the one centering on a politico-diplomatic body, and the other on an international judiciary.