That search for contraband of war can ever be suppressed I do not believe, and fear that it may be many years before divergent national interests can be so far reconciled as to secure an agreement as to the list of contraband articles.
He expresses skepticism about the possibility of suppressing contraband searches, indicating the challenges of reconciling national interests.
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To open and facilitate the settlement of trifling disputes between nations by judicial methods, war being unquestionably a method out of all proportion in such cases.
We see a general legal persuasion ever in process of more and more distinct formation uniting all civilised peoples.
Since compulsory service has turned standing armies into national armies, war has also become national.
If in our own day a law recognised by the civilised world forbids, in a general way, the soldier to make booty in warfare on land, we have here a great advance in civilisation, and the jurists have had their share in bringing it about.
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