To give a single signatory Power the right of forbidding a change desired by all the others, imposes a kind of perpetuity on treaty stipulations, that in practice neither could nor ought to be insisted upon.
Morley critiques the idea of giving one nation the power to block changes desired by others in international treaties.
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