A neutral State is bound to prevent its territory from becoming, in any way, a "base of operations" for either belligerent.
A neutral State restrains, under certain circumstances, the export of coal, not because coal is contraband, but because such export is converting the neutral territory into a base of belligerent operations.
A neutral State is not bound to prevent such assistance being rendered by its subjects to either belligerent as is involved in, e.
The use of the term "contraband" with reference to the failure of a neutral State to prevent occurrences of this kind is purely misleading.
I recollect a very telling illustration of the German and British points of view, given to me by a prominent politician from a neutral state.
The recognition by a neutral state of belligerency does not, however, imply recognition of independent political existence.
The powers recognized the independence of Belgium, "as a neutral state.
One's ordinary notions of discipline do not include the seizure of a warship by a handful of bandits, the cannons of the vessel being afterwards directed against the Government palace of a neutral State.
A neutral state of feeling is necessarily imperilled by a greedy pursuit of pleasures; hence the dictum, to be content with little is a great good; because little is most easily obtained.
Instead of making morality, like health, a neutral state (though an indispensable condition of happiness), he ascribes to it the highest positive gratification.
Such a case may also occur if an army of one of the belligerents crosses the frontier of a neutral State, but is not at once disarmed and interned, and is, therefore, able at any moment to recross the frontier and attack the other belligerent.
The action of the Portuguese Government in allowing this to be accomplished was a gross breach of the duties incumbent upon a neutral State in time of war.
And even stronger was the Transvaal argument that in no case after war had begun could such a treaty be applied by a neutral State to the disadvantage of third parties.
She is a sovereign state by the same charter as Italy or Greece; and for the convenience of Europe she has been solemnly declared a neutral state, endowed with special privileges but burdened with corresponding obligations.
That principle is and remains placed under the sanction of the collective Guarantee of the Powers signing as Parties to the present Treaty, with the exception of Belgium, which is itself a Neutral State'.
But the Powers which made her a sovereign state, also, and for the same reasons of convenience, made her a neutral state.
As an independent state she is bound by the elementary principle of the law of nations, that a neutral state is bound to refuse to grant a right of passage to a belligerent.
A neutral State, it declares, not only may, but must forbid the passage of troops to the subjects of both belligerents.
If this be true of a neutral State it is doubly true of a neutralized State.
The supply of such articles by subjects of a neutral State may, therefore, be just as much an untainted business transaction and pacific, as a support of a belligerent.
What is principally required of a neutral State is equal treatment of both belligerents.
But this is a neutral State, and according to international law you can't butt in and arrest citizens without applying for an extradition order in the regular way.
This is a neutral State and we haven't got any quarrel with either party.
The establishment of Belgium as a neutral state by the treaty to which Belgium was itself a party afforded another example of the influence of the Great Powers.
It is the duty of a neutral state, within whose territory commands, or individuals, have taken refuge, to intern them at points as far removed as possible from the theater of war.
This, of course, does not affect the rights of commerce in arms on the part of the citizens of a neutral state.
In discussing this case Hall says, "The uncombined elements of an expedition may leave a neutral state in company with one another, provided they are incapable of proximate combination into an organized whole.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neutral state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
