The United States is a signatory of the first convention only, and this will be promptly submitted to the Senate.
I am not advised that similar action has been taken by any other of the signatory governments.
The diplomatic representatives of thesignatory powers accredited to The Hague, including the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs as president,[N] are to constitute an administrative council.
But the fact remains, and the fact is the thing emphasized, that England and all the Signatory Powers sat in masterly inactivity though with steam up at Salonica and let the deadly work go on.
It may be questioned whether she had any right to expect anything more from the other signatory Powers than their moral support in any attempted enforcement of its terms.
The signatory powers undertook that any fresh act of taking possession on any portion of the African coast must be notified by the power taking possession, or assuming a protectorate, to the other signatory powers.
Ratifications were deposited by all the signatory powers with the exception of the United States.
Besides, the Imperial Government has concluded an alliance on a footing of complete equality with the other two signatory Powers.
According to that usage the signatures of the signatory States of a treaty alternate in a regular order or in one determined by lot, the representative of each State signing first the copy which belongs to his State.
Men-of-war of all signatory Powers have a right to stop and to verify the nationality of merchantmen of all nations which are suspected of having infringed the regulations of the treaty (article 10).
The signatory Powers are obliged to notify the treaty to others and to invite them to accede thereto (article 16).
All the fishing vessels of the signatory Powers must be registered, and the registers have to be exchanged between the Powers (article 5).
Sometimes the whole of the treaty is recited verbatim in the ratifying documents, but sometimes only the title, preamble, and date of the treaty, and the names of the signatory representatives are cited.
It would, for instance, be a violation of International Law on the part of a signatory Power of the Declaration of Paris of 1856 to declare that it would cease to be a party.
The Council has, further, the task of furnishing the signatory Powers with a report of the proceedings of the Court, the working of the administration, and the expenses.
The declaration has been generally accepted by the signatory powers, and Mr. McLane, the representative of the United States at the conference, has been instructed to sign it, subject to the approval of the Senate.
In April, 1308, a parliament of nobles met and insisted upon the exile of the favourite.
If the king behave unreasonably, his lieges are bound to bring him back to the ways of righteousness.
Winchelsea, too, came to England and threw his powerful influence on the side of the opposition.
It desires faithfully to observe the Berlin Act, that great International Act which binds all Signatory or adhering Powers, according to the clear grammatical sense of the text, which none has power either to take from or add to.
The Conference recommended to the signatory Powers the adoption of a draft upon which it agreed for the organization of the court, leaving to be determined only the method by which the judges should be selected.
These proposals were agreed to by the signatory nations, and both Russia and Japan promised to respect Chinese neutrality.
Or they might declare an offensive war (much deprecated by Turkey herself) against a nation that had peculiar advantages for defence, and for an object that every other signatory power thought in itself a bad object.
To give a single signatory Power the right of forbidding a change desired by all the others, imposes a kind of perpetuity on treaty stipulations, that in practice neither could nor ought to be insisted upon.
Finally, in September, 1902, the President directed Secretary Hay to prepare his now famous Roumanian Note to the Powers signatory to the Treaty of Berlin.
America stands also as the chief signatoryof the great world conventions which have settled new rules for the conduct of war, to mitigate its horrors, especially for non-combatants.
This gave certain rights to all the signatory powers, any one of whom had the right to feel itself sufficiently aggrieved to go to war if any other power disregarded the treaty.
If the State so invited, having refused to accept the said conditions and obligations, resorts to war against a signatory State, the provisions of Article 16 of the Covenant, as defined by the present Protocol, shall be applicable against it.
Such regulations would be made for the Council's own use but would be communicated to the Governments of the signatory States.
The signatory States which are Members of the League of Nations undertake to make every effort to this end.
As regards the settlement of disputes arising between a State signatory and one or more States non-signatory and non-Members of the League of Nations, the new system has had to be adapted to the former system.
Council decides which party is the aggressor and calls upon the signatory States to apply the sanctions.
The above indicated solution of the case of States non-signatory but Members of the League of Nations appears to be so obvious as to require no special mention in the Protocol.
An authentic copy of this act shall be delivered, with an invitation to adhere to it, to each of the signatory powers of the convention of the twenty-second of August, 1864, as well as to those that have successively acceded to it.
Nations since that date, on becoming signatory to the treaty, have included that amendment in their charters.
They do not regard me as an American merely, but as the national representative of an international treaty to which themselves are signatory and under which they act.
Footnote 548: Thus both Italy and Turkey, although the latter is not even a signatory Power, during the Turco-Italian War, complied with the rules of the Declaration of London.
As eleven States did not sign the Convention and ten of the signatory States refused to accept the composition of the Court as regulated by article 15, it cannot be said that the Convention is based on universal agreement.
But future experience must decide whether the signatory Powers will in practice always act according to this distinction.
However, privateering was abolished by the Declaration of Paris in 1856 as between the signatory Powers and others who joined it later.
Nationals of one signatoryresiding or detained in the country of another shall be given all possible facilities for repatriation.
The Director-General shall send certified copies to the signatory States, and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration.
It shall be subject to ratification or acceptance by the signatory States.
In case Germany violates in any manner the provisions of Article 42 and 43 she shall be regarded as committing a hostile act against the powers signatory of the present treaty and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world.
The French Government will transmit to all the signatorypowers a certified copy of the proces-verbaux of the deposit of ratifications.
Hague Conventions In the 1899 Convention the signatory powers agreed: “before an appeal to arms .
Each Signatory shall appoint a Chief Prosecutor for the investigation of the charges against and the prosecution of major war criminals.
It is understood that no witness or defendant detained by any Signatory shall be taken out of the possession of that Signatory without its assent.
The Signatory Powers created this Tribunal, defined the law it was to administer, and made regulations for the proper conduct of the Trial.
Any Government of the United Nations may adhere to this Agreement by notice given through the diplomatic channel to the Government of the United Kingdom, who shall inform the othersignatory and adhering Governments of each such adherence.
If, however, a session of the Tribunal takes place on the territory of one of the four Signatories, the representative of that Signatory on the Tribunal shall preside.
Each Signatory may replace its member of the Tribunal or his alternate for reasons of health or for other good reasons, except that no replacement may take place during a Trial, other than by an alternate.
Not only has she broken her most solemn treaties and moral engagements, but all the rules of civilized warfare to which she was a signatory at The Hague she has also violated, merely regarding them as “a scrap of paper.
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