Word: grotius
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...seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...flash the meaning followed, Freedom of the Seas! Grotius, writing twenty-seven years before the founding of Harvard College, established the ideas of the liberty of the sea, and the impossibility of its monopoly by any one-nation, a doctrine of far-reaching consequences. And being in a thoughtful mood, the Vagabond this morning will visit Harvard 6 at 11 o'clock, to hear Professor George Grafton Wilson give his interpretation of the significance of Grotius in the development of human history...
...contain their signatures. To them the fact that such intelligent minds of their country as Mr. Hughes, Judge Choate, and President Lowell favor the court, means nothing. The eleven judges, chosen from the nations of the world in the hope that they can formulate an international law such as Grotius visioned, a law which will by its own prestige erect a bulwark against the international differences of future generations, these judges must count among their number no man who has behind his decisions the firm expression of this country's faith in his colleagues and himself. And thus, the necessity...
...first address will be given by Dr. George Grafton Wilson, Professor of International Law at the University, at 10.20 o'clock this morning. He will talk on "Grotius and After". He is a well known authority on international law, and has published among other books "The First Year of the League of Nations...
...sane world, "freedom of the sea" means what it did to Grotius: Beyond the shallows of the shore no nation claims control. To an obstinate old man, obsessed with that German war mania that has cost the world so much blood and so many tears, it means that in time of war no nation must have a sea power superior to Germany's or capable of coping with German aggression. Yet when Germans solemnly protest that they are fighting for the freedom of the seas, it is the Tirpitz kind of freedom that they have in mind. New York World...