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Pacific Blockade or War?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Pitman B. Potter
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Editorial Comment
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 273 - 274
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1953

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References

1 February 15, 1953.

2 See, for example, letter in The Washington Post, Feb. 7, 1953, p. 10.

3 C. G. Fenwick, International Law (3rd ed., 1948), Ch. XXVII.

4 Fenwick, op. cit., pp. 535–537. See also P. B. Potter, The Freedom of the Seas (1922), pp. 118–119, and A. P. Higgins and C. J. Colombos, The International Law of the Sea (1943), pp. 301–304. The standard monograph is A. E. Hogan, Pacific Blockade (1908).

5 Hogan, op. cit., pp. 73–157.

6 Thus use of this institution might avoid recourse to war; the prejudice against pacific blockade came in part from formalists but in part from those who felt that it resembled war too much.

7 The Prize Cases (1862), 2 Black 635.

8 Editorial in The Washington Post, Feb. 12, 1953, p. 12 (“Wiley’s Aberration”).