International Law has not been so understood abroad; and it may be frankly confessed that the Spanish arguments were learned, acute, sustained by the general judgment of Europe, and not easy to refute.
Reid acknowledges the complexity of international law and the challenges posed by European arguments regarding sovereignty.
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