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I am especially desirous of emphasising the proposition that carriage of contraband is no offence, either against international law or against the law of England.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland emphasizes that carrying contraband does not violate international or English law.
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Without war the world would stagnate, and lose itself in materialism.
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