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The Second Peace Conference at the Hague

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

David J. Hill
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In his address to the First Peace Conference on May 20, 1899, President De Staal remarked:

The name “ Peace Conference,” which the instinct of the peoples, outstripping in this respect the decision taken by the governments, has given to our reunion, well indicates the essential object of our labors. The “ Peace Conference ” cannot fail in the mission incumbent upon it. It must produce from its deliberations a tangible result which the whole of humanity awaits with confidence.

Such was the keynote of the salutation with which doubt and pessimism were greeted upon their arrival at The Hague in 1899. Certainly, in 1907 the nations, after the impressive lessons taught by two terrible wars, whether anxious participants or silent witnesses, have a still more ardent desire for permanent peace, and the duty owed by the governments to humanity is not less solemn or less evident.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1907 , pp. 671 - 691
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1907

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1 Conference internationale de la pais. Première partie, p. 16.

2 Nouveau Cynée, ou discours d'estat représentant les occasiona et moyens d'establir une paix générale et liberté de commerce, etc., Paris, 1623.

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14 Founded in 1873. Since 1895 called Association de Droit International.

15 See Bonfils, Manuel, ed. of 1905, pp. 891 et seq.

16 F. De Martens, Traité de droit international, I, eh. I, 51.

17 Le Tribunal international, Paris, 1887.

18 Article III of the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.

19 See Hershey, The International Law and Diplomacy of the Russo-Japanesa War, New York, 1906.

20 See Darby, Modern Pacific Settlements, London, 1904, pp. 134, 151.

21 Report of the Third Conference of the American States, Washington, 1907.

22 Rapport du Conseil Administratif de la Cour Permanente d'Arbitrage, The Hague, 1907.

23 See Foreign Relations of the United States for 1903, p. 1.

24 See Report of Third Conference of the American States, p. 42.

25 See Report, p. 14.

26 Dachne van Varick, Le Droit Financier International devant la Conference de la Haye, The Hague, 1907, p. 21.

27 See Ralston's Report, Washington, 1906.

28 See Darby, Modern Pacific Settlements, p. 143.