Thomas Erskine Holland: “They are of such a character that, in the struggle for existence, Turkey can hardly be blamed for disregarding them.”

Its admirers have, however, too long preserved it, perhaps sub spe rati, in a state of suspended animation, using it by way of, as they supposed, a convenient handbook of maritime law for the purposes of the present war, though subject to…

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

To put an end to this confusion, I venture to suggest that, in concert with our Allies, the Declaration should be finally consigned to oblivion.

It is surely notorious that the delegates of a Power, by agreeing to the draft of a treaty, give to it no international validity, which results only when the treaty has been ratified by their Government.