Thomas Erskine Holland: “In any case, it is not for us to rival the barbarism of their Government by allowing them to drown.”

Since compulsory service has turned standing armies into national armies, war has also become national.

Laws of war are consequently more than ever important and necessary, since, in the differences of culture and opinion which prevail between individuals and classes, law is almost the only moral power the force of which is acknowledged by…

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.

Great Britain, for one, has no desire for an acre of new territory on the American continent.