Documents Relating to the Program of the First Hague Peace Conference (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The Netherland Government in 1899, at the time of the assembling of the First Peace Conference at The Hague, prepared and laid before that conference a collection of official documents and extracts from writers of authority relating to the various questions which had been proposed for discussion by the Russian Government. This collection, as published, is entitled A ctes et documents relatifs au programme de la conference de la paix publies dordre du gouvernement par Jfir. van Daehne van Varick (T he Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1899). An English translation of the volume is contained in the present pamphlet issued by the Division of International Law of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in pursuance of the policy of the Trustees to disseminate information of this nature and of the specific direction of the Executive Committee in regard to the above-mentioned documents. The first part of the volume relates to the subject of the hmitation of armaments, and has heretofore been issued by the Division in English translation as No. 22 of this Pamphlet Series, the supply of which has been exhausted. The footnotes of the original have been enlarged by adding biographical and bibliographical data. It will be observed that the Rush-B agot Agreement between Great Britain and the United States for the limitation of armament upon the Great Lakes of North America was not included among the documents submitted by the Netherland Government to the Hague Peace Conference. As the present publication consists solely of the documents laid before the Conference, it was not deemed advisable to insert it in the text. I nasmuch, however, as one of the documents included in the collection refers to the A greement, it is, for the sake of completeness, added in the form of an appendix. The reader interested in the Agreement will find it most conveniently perhaps in the secon
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