UPON WAR AND NEUTRALITY (1881-1909) WITH SOME COMMENTARY BY THOMAS ERSKINE HOLLAND K.C., D.C.L., F.B.A. CHICHELE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1909 All rights reserved PREFACE FOR a good many years past I have been allowed to comment, in letters to The Times, upon points of International Law, as they have been raised by the events of the day. These letters have been fortunate enough to attract some attention, both at home and abroad, and requests have frequently reached me that they should be rendered more easily accessible than they can be in the files of the newspaper in which they originally appeared. I have, accordingly, thought that it might be worth while to select, from a greater number, such of my letters as bear upon those questions of War and Neutrality of which so much has been heard in recent years, and to group them for republication, with some elucidatory matter (more especially with references to changes introduced by the Geneva Convention of 1906, The Hague Conventions of 1907, and the Declaration of London of the present year) under the topics to which they respectively relate. The present volume has been put together in accordance with this plan; and my best thanks are due to the 202920 |