Thomas Erskine Holland: “Still more unwarrantable is the Russian claim to interfere with the trade in raw cotton.”

It would be calamitous should a practice be introduced of attempting to cure the imperfect expression of a treaty by tacking on to it an equally authoritative reasoned commentary, likely, as in the present case, to be enormously longer…

Already in the first weeks of the war England had renounced the Declaration of London, the contents of which her own delegates had recognised as binding in international law.

The Declaration of London has, most fortunately, never been ratified by the Government of Great Britain.

The fact is that the vitally important questions of theory and practice raised by the Convention and the Declaration need calmer and better instructed discussion than they have yet received.