The Grotius Society, which, in spite of all discouragements, has
pursued the study of international law, heard several notable papers last year. Lord Cave's address on " War Crimes and their Punishment" is to be noted as a lucid argument for the penal clauses of the Peace Treaty. Lord Cave would have us codify the criminal law of war, either alone or in co-operation with other Powers, and enforce it rigorously in the next conflict. Mr. Claud Mullins, in a paper on " Private Enemy Property," explains the clauses in the Peace Treaty confiscating private enemy property in the Allied countries ; he points out that the English Crown has always had a right, under the Common Law, to seize such property, and that it exercised this right in the case of the ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, whose vast fortune was invested in English stocks.
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