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The International Naval Conference and the Declaration of London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Ellery C. Stowell
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Although the Naval Conference which met at London, December 4, 1908, grew out of the Second Peace Conference it differed from the latter both in its composition and its object.

In an historic session at the Hague, in June 1907, Germany and England proposed to the powers assembled to establish an international prize court. The two projects were referred to the first commission, and by the latter to a subcommission, which again appointed a committee of three, (Renault of France, Kriege of Germany, and Crowe of Great Britain) to combine them and draw up a project for submission to the commission.

It is hard to realize the significance of the work of those three jurists, each as familiar with the practical transaction of international business as with the theory and underlying principles of international law. To them, primarily, is due the elaboration of the convention for the establishment of an international prize court. Nor should we forget that the American delegation at the Hague gave the project its vigorous support, so that it was presented to the conference in the name of four of the greatest maritime powers.

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Research Article
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American Political Science Review , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , November 1909 , pp. 489 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1909

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References

1 From Sir Edward Grey's instructions to the representatives of Great Britain at Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Rome, St. Petersburgh, Tokio, Vienna, and Washington directing them to invite the governments to which they were accredited to send delegates to a conference to meet in London for the purpose above mentioned. See Parliamentary Papers, miscellaneous, no. 4 (1909), p. 2.

2 The invitation was subsequently extended to the Netherlands within whose territory it is proposed to have the international prize court sit.

3 The states which made reservations in signing the convention were: Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Persia, Salvador, Siam, Turkey, Uruguay.

4 The code was presented with certain amendments of detail adopted by the government.

5 Besides his work as reporter general of the Hague Conference he made separate reports, notably that on the proposed convention for the establishment of an international prize court, the articles of which he drew up so carefully and so admirably that the greater number of them were later incorporated, practically without modification, into the project for the creation of a court of arbitral justice, annexed to the final act of October 18, 1907.