Thomas Erskine Holland: “A submarine-telegraph cable uniting two neutral territories is inviolable.”

War is an element in the order of the world ordained by God.

To localise hostile pressure as far as possible, and to give to it such a character as shall restrict its incidence to the peccant State, is surely in the interest of the general good.

The only legitimate object which States should set before themselves during war is to weaken the military forces of the enemy.

The need for pressure of any kind is, of course, regrettable, the only question being whether such limited pressure be not more humane to the nation which experiences it, and less distasteful to the nation which exercises it, than is the…