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Such is the compromise which long experience has shown to be both reasonable and expedient between the, in themselves irreconcilable, claims of neutral and belligerent States.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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gutenberg.orgThomas Erskine Holland: “Such is the compromise which long experience has shown to be both reasonable and expedient between the, in themselves…”
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Holland describes the compromise between neutral and belligerent states as a reasonable and expedient solution.
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