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The rules of duty and of conduct between individuals are applicable also to nations, and the proceedings on this occasion illustrate this principle.
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Sumner asserts that the principles of duty and conduct applicable to individuals also apply to nations.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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