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Page 69 - During and after the battle they must do their duty at their own risk and peril. The belligerents shall have the right of...
Page 56 - Conveyed in uneasy vehicles, often to a remote distance, through roads almost impassable, they are lodged in ill-prepared receptacles for the wounded and the sick, where the variety of distress baffles all the efforts of humanity and skill, and renders it impossible to give to each the attention he demands. Far from their native home, no tender assiduities of friendship, no well-known voice, no wife, or mother, or sister, is near to soothe their sorrows, relieve their thirst, or close their eyes...
Page 56 - But, to confine our attention to the number of the slain, would give us a very inadequate idea of the ravages of the sword. The lot of those who perish + instantaneously may be considered, apart from religious prospects, as comparatively happy, since they are exempt from those lingering diseases and slow torments to which others are so liable.
Page 20 - Le maintien de la paix générale et une réduction possible des armements excessifs qui pèsent sur toutes les nations se présentent, dans la situation actuelle du monde entier, comme l'idéal auquel devraient tendre les efforts de tous les Gouvernements. Les vues humanitaires et magnanimes de Sa Majesté l'Empereur, mon Auguste Maître, y sont entièrement acquises.
Page 21 - Majesté l'Empereur a daigné m'ordonner de proposer à tous les Gouvernements dont les représentants sont accrédités près la Cour Impériale, la réunion d'une Conférence qui aurait à s'occuper de ce grave problème.
Page 56 - If they are spared by the humanity of the enemy, and carried from the field, it is "but a prolongation of torment. Conveyed in uneasy vehicles, often to a remote distance, through roads almost impassable, they are lodged in ill-prepared receptacles...
Page 29 - International law consists in certain rules of conduct which modern civilized states regard as being binding on them in their relations with one another with a force comparable in nature and degree to that binding the conscientious person to obey the laws of his country, and which they also regard as being enforceable by appropriate means in case of infringement.
Page 22 - Estimant avec l'Auguste Initiateur de la Conférence internationale de la Paix qu'il importe de consacrer dans un accord international les principes d'équité et de droit sur lesquels reposent la sécurité des Etats et le bien-être des peuples...
Page 21 - Il paraît évident, dès lors, que, si cette situation se prolongeait, elle conduirait fatalement à ce cataclysme même, qu'on tient à écarter et dont les horreurs font frémir à l'avance toute pensée humaine. Mettre un terme à ces armements incessants et rechercher les moyens de prévenir les calamités qui menacent le monde entier, tel est le devoir suprême qui s'impose aujourd'hui à tous les Etats.
Page 40 - Whereupon the Plenipotentiaries do not hesitate to express, in the name of their Governments, the wish that States between which any serious misunderstanding may arise, should, before appealing to Arms, have recourse, as far as circumstances might allow, to the Good Offices of a friendly Power.