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The Hague Peace Congress

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 8, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 32.

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The Hague Peace Congress

THERE has been much dissatisfaction expressed in various parts of the earth over the lack of beneficial results from the deliberations of The Hague Peace Congress. Especially unsatisfactory has been the stand taken by so many of the nations upon the proposition advanced by the United States representatives that private property at sea be immune from capture by the vessels of the belligerent nations. Twenty nations voted with the United States, and eleven against; but a vote must be unanimous to be binding, and so this was lost.