Thomas Erskine Holland: “If this be indeed the Pope's meaning, his aspirations are now less likely than ever to be realised.”

Pacific reprisals should also, according to the tendency of modern opinion and practice, be so applied as not to interfere with the interests of third Powers and their subjects.

The general recognition of these principles, and of those also which relate to prisoners, would mark a distinct step of progress towards the goal pursued with so honourable a persistency by the Institut de Droit International.

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 see a general legal persuasion ever in process of more and more distinct formation uniting all civilised peoples.