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Whether a State of War Exists Is Flexible

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 29.

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Whether a State of War Exists Is Flexible

As to what constitutes a state of war nowadays is a very flexible thing. The Berlin foreign office has stated that “neither the firing by the Taku forts nor the returning of the fire by the Powers constitutes a cause of war.” There is “not a state of war” in China, though there has been daily fighting for two weeks or more. There is “not a state of war” in the Philippines, though there has been constant fighting for nearly two years. It seems that whether there is war or not depends altogether upon whether it is wanted or not.