24. Extract from the Panama Canal Act, 1912, of the Congress 25. Treaty of 1914 between the United States and Colombia.. 26. Award of the Arbitral Tribunal in the North Atlantic Fish- eries Dispute between Great Britain and the United States, 1910..... 27. British Order in Council of March 15, 1893, assuming Juris- 28. Immunities of Public Armed Vessels. Extract from the Judg- ment of Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of the Exchange 139 29. Excerpts from the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade..... 143 30. Bargain for the Substitution of Territorial for Consular Hague Convention of 1907 with regard to the opening of Hostili- 3. Hague Convention of 1907 concerning the Treatment of 18. Hague Convention of 1907 for the Limitation of the Employ- ment of Force for the Recovery of Contract Debts... 19. Draft of Hague Convention of 1907 concerning the Creation 4. British Rules of Neutrality promulgated along with the 5. Hague Convention of 1907 concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in War on Land.... 6. Hague Convention of 1907 concerning the Rights and Duties 7. Rules with regard to Submarine Cables in Time of War, DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW PART I DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE NATURE, ORIGIN, AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1. Excerpts from Nicolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527 CALCULATED CRUELTY From whence it is to be observed, that he who usurps the government of any State is to execute and put in practice all the cruelties which he thinks material at once, that he may have no occasion to renew them often, but that by his discontinuance he may mollify the people, and by his benefits bring them over to his side. He who does otherwise, whether for fear or ill counsel, is obliged to be always ready with his knife in his hand; for he can never repose any confidence in his subjects, whilst they, by reason of his fresh and continued inhumanities, cannot be secure against him. So then injuries are to be committed all at once, that the last being the less, the distaste may be likewise the less; but benefits should be distilled by drops, that the relish may be greater. - (The Prince, ch. viii.) WAR A Prince, then, is to have no other design, nor thought, nor study but war and the arts and disciplines of it; for, indeed, that is the only profession worthy of a prince, and is of so much |