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If this is not International Law now, it will be; and the United States will have made it.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “If this is not International Law now, it will be; and the United States will have made it.”
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Reid asserts that the principles he advocates will eventually become recognized as International Law, with the U.S. leading the way.
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