I cordially agree, as would, I suppose, most people, with your leading article of some weeks since in deprecating any crude application to the case of the Dardanelles and Bosporus of dicta with reference to freedom of passage through straits connecting two open seas.
Holland agrees with a previous article that cautions against oversimplifying legal principles regarding straits.
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