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We recollect with pleasure the early summer days of 1899, when the representatives of nearly thirty Powers had foregathered at the Hague to attend the Peace Conference. The crack hotels were decorated with the flags of a dozen nations; equipages were continually coming and going across the Park; foreign journalists swarmed all over the town; foreign papers were full of telegrams dated from the Hague; and all the world was asking: will this be a genuine Peace Conference, or only an ordinary conference of diplomats, after all?
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© 1919 Martinus Nijhoff the Hague
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van Vollenhoven, C. (1919). Reform of the Second Law of Nations. In: The Three Stages in the Evolution of the Law of Nations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9554-6_4
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