Thomas Erskine Holland: “Arthur Cohen has done good service by explaining that Great Britain has practically asserted the right of a State to…”

This power has been so freely exercised, and large portions of the Declaration, not thereby affected, have proved to be so inapplicable to modern conditions, as disclosed by the war, that the document, so far from providing reliable…

I would submit that such a Report as that which accompanies the Declaration of London has no claim to the sort of interpretative authority which has been attributed to it; nor is it desirable that the requisite steps should be taken for…

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.

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