Die Völkerrechtlichen urkunden des Weltkrieges, Volume 4Theodor Niemeyer, Karl Strupp Duncker & Humblot, 1920 - International law |
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Allies Ambassador American citizens amerikanische Note amerikanischen Botschafter amerikanischen Regierung Antwort Appam Arabic armed August Austria-Hungary Auswärtigen Amts belligerent bereit blockade Bord Botschafter in Berlin Britain britischen British Government Bundesregierung cargo commerce conditional contraband crew Dampfer Declaration of London detained deutsche Regierung deutschen Deutschland Dunsley Embassy England englische englischen Erklärung Excellency Excellency's exports Februar feindlichen force Frage Frieden Frye Gegner Gerard Grad Handel Handelsschiffe Herausgeber high seas Imperial German Government Imperial Government international law Januar k. u. k. Regierung Kaiserliche Regierung Konterbande Krieges kriegführenden Lansing lassen Mächte Majesty's Government März ment merchant vessel naval neutral countries neutral ports neutral vessels neutralen Oesterreich-Ungarn Order in Council peace present principles Prize Court question Rechte regard Regierung der Vereinigten Reichskanzler Robert Lansing Schiffe Staaten von Amerika Staatssekretär submarine territory torpedo trade treaty United States Government United States note unsere Unterseeboot Verbündeten Vereinigten Staaten Völker warfare warship weiteres Wilson würde
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Page 261 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 283 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 283 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 258 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Page 258 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Page 284 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Page 284 - An independent Polish state should be erected, which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Page 233 - The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will guarantee, who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium of the new arrangement?
Page 258 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Page 305 - The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world ; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence.