Insurgency: Lectures Delivered at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, August, 1900U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - 17 páginas |
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Insurgency: Lectures Delivered at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode ... George Grafton Wilson Visualização integral - 1900 |
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action Admiral Benham admission of insurgency admit affect the relation armed vessel binding Britain BROWN UNIVERSITY called insurgency Colombia commander or crew consequence court criminals cruisers acting Cuba Cuban belligerency decree definition of piracy determine the attitude domestic laws fact facto insurrectionary authority GEORGE GRAFTON WILSON Haiti high seas hostile status insurgent party insurgent vessels insurgents as belligerents insurgents as legal insurrection international law July 27 June 12 laws of war legitimate government merchant vessels naval force NAVAL WAR COLLEGE neutrality laws officers organized outlaws parent penal law political department practice President Cleveland proclamation PROFESSOR IN BROWN property entitled protection rebels reclaim vessels derelict recognition of belligerency recognition of Cuban recognize the belligerency recognized belligerency rection refrain regard as piratical revolt rights of belligerency rules serious civil disturbance South African Republic Spain status of insurgency struggle subjects sufficient to determine Three Friends tion treat insurgents treatment of insurgents uprising Wharton
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Página 13 - Where a civil war prevails (that is, where the people of a country are divided into two hostile parties, who take up arms and oppose one another by military force), generally speaking, foreign nations do not assume to judge of the merits of the quarrel. If the party seeking to dislodge the existing government succeeds, and the independence of the government it has set up is recognized, then the acts of such government, from the commencement of its existence, are regarded as those of an independent...
Página 8 - ... colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace...
Página 14 - After careful examination of the authorities and precedents bearing upon this important question, I am bound to conclude, as a general principle, that a decree by a sovereign power closing to neutral commerce ports held by its enemies, whether foreign or domestic, can have no international validity and no extraterritorial effect in the direction of imposing any obligation upon the governments of neutral powers to recognize it or to contribute toward its enforcement by any domestic action on their...
Página 13 - Revolutions or insurrections may inconvenience other nations, but by accommodation to the facts the application of settled rules is readily reached. And, where the fact of the existence of war is in issue in the instance of complaint of acts committed within foreign territory, it is not an absolute prerequisite that that fact should be made out by an acknowledgment of belligerency, as other official recognition of its existence may be sufficient proof thereof.
Página 9 - The productive districts controlled by the Spanish armies were depopulated. The agricultural inhabitants were herded in and about the garrison towns, their lands laid waste, and their dwellings destroyed. This policy the late Cabinet of Spain justified as a necessary measure of war and as a means of cutting off supplies from the insurgents. It has utterly failed as a war measure. It was not civilized warfare. It was extermination.
Página 7 - And I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of the laws thereof, the utmost diligence in preventing violations of the said joint resolution and this my proclamation issued thereunder and in bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same.
Página 5 - ... property entitled to our protection. We may or may not, at our option, as justice or policy may require, treat them as pirates in the absolute and unqualified sense ; or we may, as the circumstances of any actual case shall suggest, waive the extreme right and recognize, where facts warrant it, an actual intent on the part of the individual offenders, not to depredate in a criminal sense and for private gain, but to capture and destroy ju re belli.
Página 5 - We may or may not, at our option, as justice or policy may require, treat them as pirates in the absolute and unqualified sense; or we may, as the circumstances of any actual case shall suggest, waive the extreme right and recognize, where facts warrant it, an actual intent on the part of the individual offenders, not to depredate in a criminal sense and for private gain, but to capture and destroy jure belli. It is sufficient for the present purpose that the United States will not admit any commission...
Página 2 - Turning to the practical aspects of a recognition of belligerency and reviewing its inconveniences and positive dangers, still further pertinent considerations appear. In the code of nations there is no such thing as a naked recognition of belligerency unaccompanied by the assumption of international neutrality. Such recognition without more will not confer upon either party to a domestic conflict a status not therefore actually possessed or affect the relation of either party to other states.
Página 9 - ... community shall be treated as belligerents, and if so, there must be a point at which they have a right to demand what confessedly must be granted.