Leading Cases on International Law By LAWRENCE B. EVANS, Ph. D. Counsel to the Brazilian Embassy, Washington Special Counsel to the United States Shipping Board Second Edition CHICAGO CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY 1922 With law shall our land be built up and settled, and with lawlessness wasted and spoiled. -The Story of Burnt Njal. What we seek is the reign of law based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. -Woodrow Wilson. It is impossible that the human mind should be addressed to questions better worth its noblest efforts, offering a greater opportunity for usefulness in the exercise of its powers, or more full of historical and contemporary interest, than in the field of international rights and duties. -Elihu Root. iii |