THE NETHERLANDS
"MIGHT IS RIGHT" DOCTRINE DENOUNCED. INCIDENT IN PARLIAMENT. THE HAGUE, Dec. 18. Dining the foreign affairs debate in the Second Chamber. Dr. Savornin Lehman, representing the Historical Christian Party, denounced the doctrine that right is might in international affairs, and that the necessities of Avar justify the violation of neutrality. He added that the whole world was associating itself with Great Britain's appeal _ for justice against the invasion of Belgium. The President of the Chamber protesting against this remark. Dr. Lohman replied that _he was not saying on which side right lay. but that the appeal to right met with general support^ Mr' Loudon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, supported the President's intervention, and emphasised that tho belligerents understood the Netherlands' position. Nevertheless it was the Government's, duty to be. unceasingly vigilant.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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