A School History of the Great War by Armand Jacques Gerson;Albert E. (Albert Edward) McKinley;Charles Augustin Coulomb
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REFERENCES.--_The World Almanac; War Cyclopedia_ (C.P.I.), under the names of the several countries, and under "Navy"; _German Militarism_ (C.P.I.). CHAPTER IV INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE HAGUE CONFERENCES INTERNATIONAL LAW.--In the civilized world to-day each community is made up of citizens who have a right to the protection of the laws of their community and who in turn have the duty of obedience to those laws. During recent centuries improved means of communication and transportation have brought all parts of the world closer together, and there has grown up in the minds of many enlightened thinkers the idea that the whole civilized world ought to be regarded as a community of nations. In the past the relations of nations to one another have been very nearly as bad as that of persons in savage communities. Quarrels have usually been settled by contests of strength, called wars. Believers in the idea of the community of nations argue that wars would cease or at least become much less frequent if this idea of a community of nations were generally accepted. The body of rules which nations recognize in their dealings with each other is usually spoken of as _international law_. As to certain rules of international conduct the civilized nations of the world have been in |
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