The Conception and Realization of NeutralityG. H. Ellis Company, printers, 1902 - 14 pages |
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Page 8 - It was not until after the middle of the nineteenth century that the numbers of missionaries were impressive.
Page 11 - ... a board of assessors shall be appointed to ascertain and determine what claims are valid, and what amount or amounts shall be paid by Great Britain to the United States on account of the liability arising from such failure, as to each vessel, according to the extent of such liability as decided by the Arbitrators.
Page 11 - due diligence,' referred to in the first and third of the said rules, ought to be exercised by neutral governments in exact proportion to the risks to which either of the belligerents may be exposed, from a failure to fulfill the obligations of neutrality on their part...
Page 10 - The policy of the United States in 1793 constitutes an epoch in the development of the usages of neutrality. There can be no doubt that it was intended and believed to give effect to the obligations then incumbent upon neutrals. But it represented by far the most advanced existing opinions as to what those obligations were; and in some points it even went further than authoritative international custom has up to the present time advanced.
Page 12 - These rules, though leading immediately to an award superficially favourable to the United States in the large damages it gave, placed limitations on the rights of neutrals greater even than those England had endeavoured to impose during the Napoleonic wars, and far greater than those which the United States had ever previously been willing to concede. If such limitations are to be strictly applied, the position of a neutral, so it may be well argued, will be...
Page 6 - In 1604 James I. of England, by proclamation, forbade acts of belligerency within certain limits of his dominions, fixed by a straight line drawn from one point to another about the realm of England.
Page 12 - If such limitations are to be strictly applied, the position of a neutral, so it may be well argued, will be much more perilous and more onerous in case of war between maritime powers than that of a belligerent. Our Government, to fulfil the obligations cast on it by these rules, would be obliged not only to have a strong police at all its ports to prevent contraband articles from going out to a belligerent, but to have a powerful navy to scour the seas to intercept vessels which might elude the...
Page 12 - England had endeavoured to impose during the Napoleonic wars, and far greater than those which the United States had ever previously been willing to concede. If such limitations are to be strictly applied, the position of a neutral, so it may be well argued, will be much more perilous and more onerous, in case of war between maritime powers, than that of a belligerent. The interpretation of these rules — the greatest price ever paid
Page 4 - And and this was the utmost extension of neutral care for which the belligerent of the age might reasonably look. Foreign assistance was always freely forthcoming for the belligerent of the Middle Ages. Not merely were private adventurers ever ready for foreign warfare ; not merely did penniless knights-errant and needy squires in time of domestic peace wander abroad, like the ancient Vikings, in search of honour and of profit ; Brabancons and Genoese i.
Page 7 - ... victory had been won by the Dutch, and the captives, tied two and two, were thrown into the sea, that the castle battery opened fire in indignant execution of the king's decree. In 1624, a French vessel being attacked by a Dutch ship as she was leaving an English port, in the words of the chronicler, " a king's ship came in to part them, and letting fly equally at them both, with blows of cannon equally distributed, persuaded them to peace.