LAWS OF NATIONS
OBSTRUCTED BY EXTREME FACTIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ...... ~..., LONDON, May 211. The American Ambassador, Mr John W, Davis, addressing' the Intelnational Law Conference at it* meeting in Portsmouth, urged that American differences regarding the League, of Nations should not be taken as evidence of the unwillingness of the United States to join the free peoples of the world in establishing just rules for international conduct. He argued that the advance of international law had been obstructed by two diametricnlly opposite schools of thought, the extreme Nationalists and the extreme Internationalists. Referring to the .question of maritime law which was included in the agenda of the conference, Mr Davi3 declared that th 6 Ger-"-man system of unrestricted submarine warfaro violated not only all the recognised canons of the law of nations, but the immemorial rule of the sea itself, which earo every «hip in distress the right of assistance.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10604, 1 June 1920, Page 6
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