Instructions to the American Delegates to the Hague Peace Conferences and Their Official Reports |
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Instructions to the American Delegates to the Hague Peace Conferences and ... James Brown Scott No preview available - 2017 |
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A. T. MAHAN accepted adopted agreement American delegation apply appointed arbitration armaments Article Austria-Hungary belligerent Captain Crozier Captain Mahan capture comité d'examen commission of inquiry consideration considered contraband convention of 1899 Court of Arbitration Crozier December 30 declaration Declaration of Paris desirable discussion duties of neutrals ence enemy established expressed favor ference Geneva Geneva Convention Government HAGUE CONFERENCE hostilities interest international court international law judges justice land laws and customs limitation litigant maritime warfare ment merchant vessels military nations naval force Netherlands neutral ports parties Permanent Court present President principle private property prize law procedure prohibition proposed proposition provisions questions referred regard relations representatives resolution rights and duties rules Russian Second Conference Second Peace Conference Secretary session Seth Low ships signatory Stanford Newel stipulations subcommittee submitted territory tion treaty of arbitration unanimously United United States representative vention vote WILLIAM CROZIER
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Page 72 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions or policy or internal administration of any foreign state ; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.
Page 83 - Additions to be made to the convention of 1899 for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of 1864.
Page 76 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of the...
Page 66 - Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864.
Page 31 - Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions; xx.
Page 109 - Convention for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva Convention to maritime war;1 XI. Convention relative to certain restrictions on the exercise of the right of capture in maritime war ; XII.
Page 94 - Powers consider it their duty, if a serious dispute threatens to break out between two or more of them, to remind these latter that the Permanent Court is open to them.
Page 35 - A resolution that the limitation of the military charges which at present so oppress the world is greatly to be desired, for the increase of the material and moral welfare of mankind.
Page 125 - The Contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.