DECLARATION OF LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 25, 31 January 1911, Page 7

DECLARATION OF LONDON.

ANALYSED BY THE TIMES. BRITAIN'S ISOLATION UNLIKELY. By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright, LONDON, 30th January. The Times, in an article analysing the Declaration of London, states that it might perhaps be best to accept the Declaration with all its defects, welcome the substantial boons it confers, and submit to its drawbacks, if the result of refusal to ratify it were complete isolation. That, however, in all probability, would not be so, provided we negotiated with the countries agreeing with us on certain cardinal points. "It is not unlikely," adds The Times, "that America would adopt our vigews ■upon several points of vital importance, especially as regards the legal position of foodstuffs. Heretofore the policies of the- United States and Britain regarding international law have been much the same — our precedents have been theirs, ,and theirs ours. We a-re guided by Marshall and Story (American, authorities on international law), they by "Stowell (the English jurist). Let this common course of development be continued and extended by an AngloAmerican declaration. Such an agreement could not fail to attract the adhesion of other Powers."