RELATING TO C THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. VOLUME III-GENEVA ARBITRATION. CONTAINING THE ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; ARGUMENT OF HER STATEMENTS OR ARGUMENTS MADE BY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. I. ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES DELIVERED TO THE TRIBUNAL OF The issues to be determined are now settled II. THE CONTROVERSY SUBMITTED TO ARBITRATION : The Arbitrators already acquainted with the general nature of the facts.. In suppressing an armed insurrection the United States exercised bellig- erent powers, and prevented insurgents from carrying on maritime The right to do this unquestioned; other nations no parties to the con- Abstinence of intervention by another Power is not neutrality It is a maintenance of previously existing relations Other Powers have to decide in such case only whether they acquiesce Questions arising beyond territorial limits of the Sovereign should be de- Such course secures impartiality and, when justified by results, an equality between contending parties which resembles what is known as neutrality when exercised between rightful belligerents was voluntary and anticipatory. was not called for by the relations between the Governments. and changed the legal relations between Great Britain and the in- This aid was organized, systematic, and official Nature of the injuries inflicted on the United States. They form the subject of this arbitration............. 16 |