Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its ... Annual Meeting, Volume 11, Part 1917Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1917 |
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49 Wall Street 60 Wall Street adopted April April 27 arbitration Argentina armed Avenue Belgium belligerent Boston Britain Broad Street Broadway Buenos Aires California Caracas Chairman CHARLES CHENEY HYDE Chicago Chile China commerce conference Cuba DAVID JAYNE HILL declared democracy democratic Department disputes enemy Enforce Peace England Europe Executive Council feel force France future gentlemen GEORGE G Germany Government guarantee Habana Henry Honduras honor Illinois interest international law international organization JAMES BROWN SCOTT John José Juan justice Land Title Building League to Enforce Legation mankind Massachusetts matter meeting merchant merchantman Michigan Missouri Nassau Street National Bank Building opinion Panama Pennsylvania permanent neutrality Philadelphia political present President principles question Republic resolution Russia Secretary ship Society of International Standing Committee submarine submitted tion to-day treaty Trust Building unarmed Union United University Venezuela vessel Virginia Washington William Street Wilson York City
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Page 96 - There must be a misstatement of an existing fact: but the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion.
Page 94 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Page 65 - July, 1899, provided nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the honor of the two Contracting States, and do not concern the interests of third Parties.
Page 34 - In accordance with the general principles of visit and search and destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law, such vessels, both within and without the area declared as naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives, unless these ships attempt to escape or offer resistance.
Page 18 - Government took at the very outset is inevitable, namely, that the use of submarines for the destruction of an enemy's commerce is of necessity, because of the very character of the vessels employed and the very methods of attack which their employment of course involves, incompatible with the principles of humanity, the long established and incontrovertible rights of neutrals, and the sacred immunities of non-combatants.
Page 13 - Only her actual resistance to capture or refusal to stop when ordered to do so for the purpose of visit could have afforded the commander of the submarine any justification for so much as putting the lives of those on board the ship in jeopardy.
Page 112 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Page 14 - Manifestly submarines cannot be used against merchantmen, as the last few weeks have shown, without an inevitable violation of many sacred principles of justice and humanity.
Page 131 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Page 9 - Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which are peculiar to a democracy; they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those in which it is deficient.