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... duties , with which about a third part of International Law is concerned , has been treated far too exclusively , and far more often , from the point of view of Neutral and Belligerent interests than from its bearing on the length of ...
... duties , with which about a third part of International Law is concerned , has been treated far too exclusively , and far more often , from the point of view of Neutral and Belligerent interests than from its bearing on the length of ...
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... duty of statesmen to exhaust every pa- cific resource before plunging their country into War . These successive changes of practice and belief indicate , first , that there is no fixed character appertaining to Changes indi- cate non ...
... duty of statesmen to exhaust every pa- cific resource before plunging their country into War . These successive changes of practice and belief indicate , first , that there is no fixed character appertaining to Changes indi- cate non ...
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... duty first to destroy , and only secondarily to save alive . No doubt the order , the preci- sion , the very comprehensiveness of military action did much , as it always does , to give dignity , and even lustre , to barbarities ...
... duty first to destroy , and only secondarily to save alive . No doubt the order , the preci- sion , the very comprehensiveness of military action did much , as it always does , to give dignity , and even lustre , to barbarities ...
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... duty of Intervention in certain extreme crises , it is always open to a State , influential , designing , and unscrupulous , to foster in another State , subject to its moral control , the very condition of things which will , sooner or ...
... duty of Intervention in certain extreme crises , it is always open to a State , influential , designing , and unscrupulous , to foster in another State , subject to its moral control , the very condition of things which will , sooner or ...
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... duty , right , and wrong , and of the aim of life , so far as they only affect the individual human being in the smallest cir- cle of domestic or social relationships , are tolerably precise and identical for different countries . So ...
... duty , right , and wrong , and of the aim of life , so far as they only affect the individual human being in the smallest cir- cle of domestic or social relationships , are tolerably precise and identical for different countries . So ...
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Page 147 - 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 219 - ... any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.
Page 147 - ... 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 146 - The Black Sea is neutralized ; its waters and its ports, thrown open to the mercantile marine of every nation, are formally and in perpetuity interdicted to the flag of war, either of the Powers possessing its coasts or of any other Power, with the exceptions mentioned in Articles 14 and 19 of the present treaty.