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The Hague Convention Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Land Warfare1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Antonio S. de Bustamante
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Extract

Hugo Grotius says, at the close of Chapter XVII, Book III, of his work De jure belli ac pacis, that it may be advantageous (for a neutral) to make a convention with each of the belligerents so that it may be allowed to abstain from the war with the consent of both sides. This opinion of the father of the law of nations might be deemed to be well reasoned in 1625, but it reads very strangely in 1908.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1908 , pp. 95 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1908

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Footnotes

1

Translated by Miss Margaret M. Hanna, Department of State.

References

2 This committee, presided over by Mr. Asser, was made up of General de Giindell, from Germany; General Davis, from the United States of America; Baron Giesl de Gieslingen, from Austria; Beernaert and van den Heuvel, from Belgium; Bustamante, from Cuba; Brun, from Denmark; Renault, from France;Lord Reay and General Elles, from Great Britain; Tsudzuki, from Japan; Eyschen, from Luxemburg; General den Beer Poortugael, from the Netherlands; Samad Khan, from Persia; Beldiman, from Roumania; Borel (Redacteur) and Carlin, from Switzerland.