Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1514 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII and on the question of the conversion of merchant vessels into men-of-war to obtain some modification before the Convention finally took effect. Sir Edward Grey?! then explained the views held by His Majesty’s Government both as to the merits of the Conven- tion and the question of consulting the Dominions with regard to treaties. On the merits of the Convention he elaborated the fact that the Convention arose out of the decision to set up a Prize Court arrived at at The Hague in 1907; he contended that such a Prize Court was an unquestionable improvement on the existing arrangement under which the Courts of belli- gerents decided finally on the complaints of neutrals in respect of the seizure of neutral vessels. But it was essential bo draw up some rules for the guidance of the Court, and this explained the fact of the drawing up of the rules embodied in the Declaration of London. As regards the substance of these rules it must be remembered that they were a com- promise. Great Britain had secured very considerable con- cessions from other Powers. Before the Declaration there was nothing to prevent any foreign Power declaring all food contraband, and now it could only do so under strictly defined conditions, and indeed the onus was normally thrown on the captor, and not as hitherto on the ship, to prove the nffence of carrying contraband. Similarly, though His Majesty’s Government disliked very much the sinking of neutral vessels, they had found that many of the Great Powers were not prepared to share their view on this matter, and the United States in particular had been very anxious that the compromise embodied in the Declaration of London should be accepted, as representing at any rate a considerable improvement on the arrangements which existed before the Declaration. With regard to the question of consulting the Dominions as to treaties, Sir E. Grey explained that the fact that they were not consulted with regard to the Declaration arose out of the fact that they were not consulted as regards Hague t Cd. 8745, pp. 104 seq.

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