Excerpt: ...that private individuals and corporations have the right to sell arms and ammunitions of war to any belligerent and, in the Hague Convention held in 1907, this right was expressly ratified and confirmed. This same Director Kriege who represented Germany at this Hague Conference in 1907, in the debates on this point said: "The neutral boats which engage in such a trade, commit a violation of the duties of neutrality. However, according to a principle generally recognised, the State of which the boat flies the ...
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Excerpt: ...that private individuals and corporations have the right to sell arms and ammunitions of war to any belligerent and, in the Hague Convention held in 1907, this right was expressly ratified and confirmed. This same Director Kriege who represented Germany at this Hague Conference in 1907, in the debates on this point said: "The neutral boats which engage in such a trade, commit a violation of the duties of neutrality. However, according to a principle generally recognised, the State of which the boat flies the flag is not responsible for this violation. The neutral States are not called upon to forbid their subjects a commerce which, from the point of view of the belligerents, ought to be considered as unlawful." (Conference International de la Paix, La Haye, 15 Juin-18 Octobre 1907. Vol. III, p. 859.) During our trouble with General Huerta, arms and ammunition for Huerta's forces from Germany were landed from German ships in Mexico. During the Boer war the Germans, who openly sympathised with the Boers, nevertheless furnished to England great quantities of arms and munitions, expressly destined to be used against the Boers; and this, although it was manifest that there was no possibility whatever that the Boers could obtain arms and munitions from German sources during the war. For instance, the firm of Eberhardt in Dusseldorf furnished one hundred and nine cannon, complete, with wagons, caissons and munitions, etc., to the English which were expressly designed for use against the Boers. At one time the Imperial Foreign Office sent me a formal note making reference to a paragraph in former Ambassador Andrew D. White's autobiography with reference to the alleged stoppage in a German port of a boat laden with arms and ammunition, for use against the Americans in Cuba during the Spanish War. Of course, former Ambassador White wrote without having the Embassy records at hand and those records show that the position he took at the time of this alleged...
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾"; Type: Ex-Library 1917 hardcover in green cloth with gold lettering. Some age/use. Ex-library with the usual attributes. Text is generally clean. Binding and hinges are intact with minor cracking to the hinges. Binding leans somewhat. Some age/wear outside, concentrated at edges and high points, including some loss at the extremities of the spine. An interesting diplomatic memoir in in 448 pages.
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Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 448. xvi, 448 pp. Front hinge broken; front free endpaper loose; cover faded, worn at spine, soiled. The autobiography of the United States Ambassador to Germany until the U.S. entry into World War I in 1917.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book Gently used former library book (Holy Cross Abbey, Canon City, Colorado) with usual markings. American Ambassador to the German Imperial Court.
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Acceptable. No Jacket. Considerable wear to cover. Binding somewhat loose. Pages unmarked but tanning with age. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.
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Good. Hardcover book with no dust jacket. Cover has some smudging and light discoloration from age. Fore edges have some light spots. Inside is in really nice condition for the age. One or two pages have an age spot, but other than that pretty nice.
