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Into this has now been incongruously thrust a set of clauses intended to give effect to a novel and highly controversial proposal for the creation of an International Prize Court.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland critiques the inclusion of controversial clauses in the Bill aimed at establishing an International Prize Court.
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Without war the world would stagnate, and lose itself in materialism.
This being so, it is necessary to recognise also that increased humanity in the mode of making war has in reality followed upon the gradual softening of manners.
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