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the Bases of Discussion of the Preparatory Committee, there is also added
to the cases of mob violence and popular disturbance the fact that the movement
 should be directed against foreigners as such. There appears to be no
reason whatever for this distinction. The feelings that stir the mob might
be either political, religious, economic or international. Their nature is
immaterial. The nature and aim of the movement are questions which the
international court might consider in determining the degree of diligence that
the State should have exercised. But beyond this, which has no relation to
the substantive law, it seems unnecessary to refer specifically to one of the
various forms of popular disturbances.

national Law, I, p. 200; editorial comments on the Aigues-Mortes Case, Revue générale
de droit international public, I, 175; Garner, in Proceedings of the American Society
of International Law, 1927, p. 62; Coffey, ibid., pages 63-04.