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... organised and expensive military and naval equipments ; the scale of operations is enormous ; the armaments so prodigious in times of Peace , as well as of War , as to encroach perilously on the labour needed to provide means of ...
... organised and expensive military and naval equipments ; the scale of operations is enormous ; the armaments so prodigious in times of Peace , as well as of War , as to encroach perilously on the labour needed to provide means of ...
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... organised State , as that of the Confederate States of America in 1861-5 , to the final stroke of practical emancipation of Servia in 1862 , and the portentous and not unsuccess- ful struggles for independence which have since ...
... organised State , as that of the Confederate States of America in 1861-5 , to the final stroke of practical emancipation of Servia in 1862 , and the portentous and not unsuccess- ful struggles for independence which have since ...
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... organisation of a particular State , and are , presumedly and primarily , owing to defects either in the form or in the adminis- tration of a political constitution . Thus it may be expected , even on the face of the en- quiry , that ...
... organisation of a particular State , and are , presumedly and primarily , owing to defects either in the form or in the adminis- tration of a political constitution . Thus it may be expected , even on the face of the en- quiry , that ...
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... organised commercial system . These facts have no doubt attracted attention to evils greater even than themselves , and they have encouraged free speech and unfettered criticism . But the growing dislike to War , on social and purely ...
... organised commercial system . These facts have no doubt attracted attention to evils greater even than themselves , and they have encouraged free speech and unfettered criticism . But the growing dislike to War , on social and purely ...
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... organisation which War pre - supposes on national prosperity . There are two causes which will help to enforce this sort of instruction . One is the con- stantly - increasing scale on which military and naval preparations are , in most ...
... organisation which War pre - supposes on national prosperity . There are two causes which will help to enforce this sort of instruction . One is the con- stantly - increasing scale on which military and naval preparations are , in most ...
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Page 317 - ... any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.
Page 210 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Page 210 - ... with reference to any means of communication by Ship-Canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 342 - Prisoners of war may be employed on certain public works which have no immediate connection with the operations on the theatre of war, provided the employment be not excessive, nor humiliating to their military rank, if they belong to the army, or to their official or social position, if they do not belong to it. " They may also, subject to such regulations as may be drawn up by the military authorities, undertake private work.
Page 225 - The High Contracting Parties engage to respect the principle of Neutrality stipulated by the present Article. That principle is and remains placed under the sanction of the collective Guarantee of the Powers signing Parties to the present Treaty, with the exception of Belgium, which is itself a Neutral State.
Page 211 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain, having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the inter-oceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal...
Page 208 - ... the ancient rule of his empire, and in virtue of which it has at all times been prohibited for the ships of war of foreign Powers to enter the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus ; and that, so long as the Porte is at peace, His Majesty will admit no foreign ship of war into the said Straits.