Thomas Erskine Holland: “The elaborate classification of contraband had to be at once thrown overboard, and most of the remaining provisions of…”

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

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.

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 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.