He fears that no more than this can be done unless and until some international convention extends to those who care for wounded animals the same protection for which the Geneva Convention provides in the case of men; and he would suggest that you should turn your efforts in that direction.
Holland suggests that international conventions should extend protections to those caring for wounded animals, similar to the Geneva Convention for humans.
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It is surely desirable that henceforth Great Britain should know, and that other nations should at least have the means of knowing, for certain, whether she is at war or at peace.
Every law presupposes an authority to superintend and direct its execution, and international conventions are supported by no such authority.
If in our own day a law recognised by the civilised world forbids, in a general way, the soldier to make booty in warfare on land, we have here a great advance in civilisation, and the jurists have had their share in bringing it about.
Only compare the horrors of the Thirty Years' War with the struggles of modern times.
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