CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL LAWAND DIPLOMACY
Edited by L. Oppenheim, M.A., LL.D.
Membre de l'Institut de Droit International,
Whewell Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge,
Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence at Madrid,
Corresponding Member of the American Institute of International Law.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL
LAW AND DIPLOMACY.
Edited by L. Oppenheim, M.A., LL.D.,Whewell Professor of International Law inthe University of Cambridge.
A GUIDE TO DIPLOMATIC PRACTICE.By the Right Hon. Sir Ernest Satow,G.C.M.G., LL.D., D.C.L., formerlyEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.2 Volumes. 8vo. 30s. net.
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ANDTHIRD STATES. A Monograph. ByRonald F. Roxburgh, of the MiddleTemple, Barrister-at-Law; formerly WhewellInternational Law Scholar in theUniversity of Cambridge; formerly Scholarof Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. 7s. 6d.net.
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THREE LECTURES
WHEWELL PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
MEMBRE DE L'INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL. HONORARY MEMBER OF
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF JURISPRUDENCE AT MADRID, CORRESPONDING
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW
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The three lectures collected in this volume wereprepared without any intention of publication.They were delivered for the purpose of drawingattention to the links which connect the proposalfor a League of Nations with the past, to the difficultieswhich stand in the way of the realisationof the proposal, and to some schemes by whichthese difficulties might be overcome. When itwas suggested that the lectures should be broughtbefore the public at large by being issued in bookform I hesitated, because I was doubtful whetherthe academic method natural to a University lecturewould be suitable to a wider public. After consideration,however, I came to the conclusion thattheir publication might be useful, because thelectures attempt to show how the developmentinitiated by the two Hague Peace Conferences couldbe continued by turning the movement for a Leagueof Nations into the road of progress that theseConferences opened.
Professional International lawyers do not sharethe belief that the outbreak of the World War andits, in many ways, lawless and atrocious conducthave proved the futility of the work of the HagueConferences. Throughout these anxious years wehave upheld the opinion that the progress initiated[vi]at the Hague has by no means been swept awayby the attitude of lawlessness deliberately—'becausenecessity knows no law'—taken up by Germany,provided only that she should be utterly defeated,and should be compelled to aton