QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 31 May 1920, Page 5

QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

AN AMERICAN STATEMENT,

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The American Ambassador, addressing the International Law Conference at Portsmouth, urged that American differences regarding the League of Nations should not be taken evidence of the unwillingness of the United States to join the free peoples of the world in the establishment of just rules for international conduct. He argued that the. advance of international law had been obstructed by two diametrically opposite schools of thought—namely, extreme Nationalism and extreme Internationalism.

Referring to the Question of maritime law, which was included in the agenda of the conference, Mr Davis declared that Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare 'had not only violated all recognised canons of the law of nations, but the immemorial rule of the sen. itself, which gave every ship in distress the right of assistance.