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Into this has now been incongruously thrust a set of clauses intended to give effect to a novel and highly controversial proposal for the creation of an International Prize Court.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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gutenberg.orgThomas Erskine Holland: “Into this has now been incongruously thrust a set of clauses intended to give effect to a novel and highly controversial…”
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Holland critiques the inclusion of controversial clauses in the Bill aimed at establishing an International Prize Court.
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States differ so widely in offensive power and vulnerability that it would be hardly advisable thus to fetter the liberty of action of a State which considers itself to have been injured.
We know also that war, which moves nations so deeply, rouses to exceptional activity the good qualities as well as the evil instincts of human nature.
Every law presupposes an authority to superintend and direct its execution, and international conventions are supported by no such authority.
But I go further, and think the softening of manners can alone bring about this result, which cannot be attained by a codification of the law of war.
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