The more successfully the nations eliminate war as the final
instrument for settling their disputes or their problems for which no other solution has in the past been found, the more urgent is it to find the substitute for the discarded instrument and to be sure that Govern- ments should both encourage all work in the sphere of International Law and agree upon conclusions reached. The International Law Association assembled in Warsaw last week, and representatives of twenty-two countries were there. From Great Britain went Lord Phillimore, Sir George Macdonogh, Mr. Roland Vaughan-Williams and, not the least important, Dr. Bellot, who was not only one of our keenest students of International Law, but the active secretary here of the Association. We greatly regret that, he died suddenly at his work in Warsaw. The Association discussed the position of the civil population of an invaded country and also the liabilities under contracts running at the outbreak of war between subjects of belligerent States. Thus they showed that they are determined that if war is to die, it shall die as no " outlaw," but in the full odour of legality. * * * *
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