 | American Society of International Law. Annual Meeting - 1913 - 406 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel BELONG TO THEM, and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to ENCUMBER them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use. Article 35, treaty between the United States and New... | |
 | James Brown Scott, George Grafton Wilson - 1913 - 482 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use." In the same year, Mr. Cass, writing to the British... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Foreign Affairs - 1918 - 760 pages
...trade and travel belong to them. and that'they choose to shut them. or. what is almost equivalent, tn encumber them with such unjust relations as would prevent their general use." Seven years later, in 1805, Mr. Seward in different communications took the following position : "... | |
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... more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close the gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues... 
