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Hague conference. A conference of representatives of different States to consider the question of international peace and kindred subjects. So called because the place of meeting has been The Hague in South Holland (Netherlands). The first Hague Conference was the outcome of a circular letter of the Czar of Russia handed to all the foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. Petersburg on the 24th August, 1898, and as a result the first Peace Conference met on 18th May, 1899. This conference brought about the creation of a Permanent Court of Arbitration, and each of the Powers signing the Hague Arbitration Convention could appoint four persons, who constituted a panel or general list of arbitrators from which as occasion arises selection can be made. The Hague Arbitration Court has dealt with complicated international disputes. A second Peace Conference met at the Hague on 18th June, 1907. Consult Higgins, Hague Conference.Means the convention on the service Abroad of Judici...
Geneva Convention
Geneva Convention, an international agreement concluded 22nd August, 1864, at Geneva, for the purpose of improving the condition of wounded soldiers of armies in the filed. Consult Encyc. of Eng. Law; Higgins's Hague Peace Conferences...
Hague Tribunal
The permanent court of arbitration created by the ldquoInternational Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputesrdquo adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899 It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law nominated by the signatory powers From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a difference submitted to the court On the failure of the parties to agree directly on the arbitrators each chooses two arbitrators an umpire is selected by them by a third power or by two powers selected by the parties...
League of Nations (Societe des Nations)
League of Nations (Societe des Nations), is a conventional assembly which was set up early in 1920 at the conclusion of the War of 1914-1919 (First World War), with a membership of 58 States. The Covenant, consisting of 26 Articles at the beginning of each of the Peace Treaties, is its charter, pledging these States to promote international co-operation, and achieve peace and security by accepting obligations not to go to war, and to respect treaties. Among the important principles which underlie the League are the 'collective system,' e.g., collective action to prevent aggression, as well as to assist members to carry on their common interests more effectively; the duty of reduction of armaments; equality for States, e.g., recognition of greater responsibility of large Powers, with legal equality for all, large or small; undertaking to use peaceful settlement for disputes, with recognition that any war is the responsibility of all peoples; provision of means for adapting existing righ...
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