I am only concerned to maintain that, as far as international law is concerned, England has a free hand either to expel resident enemies or to prevent them from leaving the country, as may seem most conducive to her own safety.
Holland asserts that England has the legal authority to manage resident enemies for its own safety during wartime.
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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.
Only compare the horrors of the Thirty Years' War with the struggles of modern times.
Every law presupposes an authority to superintend and direct its execution, and international conventions are supported by no such authority.
The greatest kindness in war is to bring it to a speedy conclusion.
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