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stitution of the league the great

powers are assured of a place on the

council, while the minor nations

have to take turns in being repre

sented on it. But if the opponents

of the league for whom he speaks

are suspicious of the actual terms

of the constitution, what would

they say to a league in which Gua

temala or Haiti held exactly the

same position as the United States

would have?

As a matter of fact the “political

‘equality of sovereign nations” is so

far from being “the basic principle

‘of civilization” that it can hardly

be considered more than a polite

fiction. Even thia fiction had well

sigh disappeared before the war.

Thus the English authority on in

ternational law, T. J. Lawrence

wrote in 1895:—

From the time of Grotius to the

prestn day publicists have declared

that all independent states are equal

in the eye of national law. The

equality they speak of is not an

equality of power and of influen o.

but of legal rights. Doubtl'-ss this

theory was for a long time productive

of great good: it gave weak states

an admitted principle to appeal to in

•case of aggression from stronger

neighbors. But a careful examina

tion of recent international history’

seems to reveal a series of important

facts, which <-an have no other mean

ing than that the doctrine of equality

is becoming obsolete and must b»

superseded by the doctrine that a

primacy in regard to some important

matter is vested in the foremost

powers of the civilized world.

During the greater part of the pre«ent

century Great Britain. Franc-'. Aus

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Springfield weekly Republican. (1920). Springfield, Mass., 1920-09-23. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1920-09-23/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1920-09-23.