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Excerpt from The Great War and International Law
Few more futile public performances can be found in the history of international intercourse than the long diplomatic discussions which accompanied the earlier years of the war between neutral nations and Germany, about the rules of international law and their applica tion to the conduct of Germany's military and naval proceedings, while Germany had already publicly de clared that she would not deem herself bound by any rules she found to be disadvantageous to herself. The same will be true in the future if the same condition exists. It will be impossible to maintain the restraint upon national conduct afforded by the rules of inter national law so long as so great a part of the civil ized world asserts the right to disregard those rules whenever it sees fit. Either the doctrine of kriegs raison must be abandoned definitely and finally, or there is an end of international law, and in its place will be left a world without law, in which alliances of some nations to the extent of their power enforce their ideas of suit able conduct upon other nations.
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