Chapter XXVII: Section 1: The Criterion of Neutral Conduct

The main object of the first of the following letters was to
assert, as against any possible misunderstanding of phraseology
attributed to a great international lawyer (since lost to
science and to his friends by his sudden death on June 20,
1909), the authority by which alone neutral rights and duties
are defined.

The letter also touches upon the limit of time which a neutral
Power is bound to place upon the stay in its ports of
belligerent ships of war; a topic more fully discussed in