The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-08
a Check to German Mhumanay,
Say Upholders of British Wa Measure

compensation IN the words OF SIT Eu-
ward Grey In his note TO the United
States Government, dated March Is,
Subject to the paramount necessity OF
restricting German trade his Majesty's
Government have made IL their first aim
to minimize Inconvenience to neutral
From the accompanying copy OF the
order IN council which Is to be published
to-day you will observe that "A wide dis
erection IL awarded to the prize court in
dealing with the trade OF neutrals in
such manner as may In the circum-
stances be deemed just, and that full
provision is made to facilitate claims by
persons interested in any goods placed IN
the custody OF the marshal OF the prize
court under the order
Discretion to Re Used.
'The United States Government may
rest assured that the Instructions to he
issued by his Majesty's Government &c
TIE ftet and to the customs officials and
cN'culive committee concerned Will M
press upon them the duty OF acting with
the utmost despatch consistent with the
object In view and OF showing In every
case sucn consideration for neutr lis ~
may he compatible with that object.
which is. succinctly stated, to establish
n blockade to prevent vessels from car
O. us hctAs ~ - As'an 'rtl iltI.
No doubt after the present wal has
come to "A close the WI Gle question Of
blockade Will be included in the general
sbiN.y u international law which the
powers In conference ATE almost certain
20 undertake. b.; ii r1us' be clear by
Low to every international lawyer that
such "A conference will he confronted
viii another and even more pressing
task. Germany by her repeated viola
Mons not only of the letter of the
Hague conventions. but OF the very
spiitt OF International law, has demon
strated that In future the Powers
which agree TO make or codify lnterna-
t.onal law must also agree to enforce
II. The signatories OF the Hague con-
v%erGtion OF October IS. 1907. were in
the words of that document ami
mated by the desire to serve .
the int rests of humanity and the
ever progressive needs y. c~ivillsa-
ton
Until the makers of International law
become also It's guardians II IL obvious
that a belligerent confronted by an
enemy who d~isregards International Law
cannot he expected to accept tamely 80
grave and unfair n disadvantage. He
cannot be asked 10 suffer national ex-
tInction at the hands OF the wrong
doer. Otherwise international law would
have defeated Its own purpose and have
become the Instrument OF Injustice
While it is evident that Great Britain
has adopted her present policy by way
# reprisbl, IL by no means follows that
on "a deliberate survey the same policy
may not NE adopted by the common con-
sent OF he wtrld as a general rule. II
would indeed he hard to discover any
other policy which under modern rom
ditians could keep effectively alive the
recognized principle of blockade which
is So firmly established as a belligerent
right, Clearly, as Sir Edward Grey has
ton infringes no general rule
either OF International law or OF
humanity.
AZ regards America In particular,
i must be remembered hat during the
civil war the Federal states applied
10 the coutederates a blockade OF great
severity. The British Government, al
though urged repeatedly to protest
against "a course which many authorities
still consider to have been an unprece-
dented extension of the theory of block
AIDE. declined to interfere. 1t Is "A matter
of history that the effective blockade
was u most material and important
factor In the hna. victory OF the North.
The policy Of the Federal Government,
involving as 1t did an extension OF the
/ then recognized methods OF blockade.
was necessary II the principle was to be
, effectively preserved
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