LAWS FOR THE NATIONS.
AMERICA NOT ALOOF.
A. and N.Z.-Reut<fr. LONDON. May 30.
The American Ambassador, Mr. «. W. Davis, addressing a meeting of the international Law Conference at Portsmouth urged that the American differences regarding the League of Nations should not be taken as evidence of tho unwillingness of the United States to join the free peoples of the world in establishing 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 i the agenda of the conference, Mi. Davis declared that the unrestricted submarine ! warfare carried on by Germany not or.,y I violated all recognised canons of the law of nation but the immemorial rule of the sea itself, which gave every ship in distress the right of assistance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17485, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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