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IV. Treaties of Guarantee1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

J. W. Headlam-Morley
J. W. Headlam-Morley
Affiliation:
Late Fellow of King's College
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The subject of treaties of guarantee has been discussed with great ability and exceptional knowledge by Sir Ernest Satow in a recent number of the Cambridge Historical Journal. It is, however, one of such historical interest and also of such immediate practical importance, that it may perhaps be permissible to offer some additional observations upon it, and I hope that the value of what I have to say will not be diminished by the fact that I shall be chiefly occupied with what may at first appear to be largely a question of language. After all, treaties are the legal instruments by which the relations between states are defined, and we know how much difficulty may arise, even in private affairs, from the incorrect wording of legal documents and from carelessness in the use of technical expressions.

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Cambridge Historical Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 1927 , pp. 151 - 170
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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page 151 note 2 The essential parts of these treaties are to be found in White Paper Misc. No. 2,1898, PP. 1899 (C. 9088), Treaties containing Guarantees or Engagements by Gt Britain, etc.

page 163 note 1 v. Temperley, Foreign Policy of Canning [1925], p. 538.

page 170 note 1 Besides the Parliamentary Paper on Guarantees in 1898, p. 150, n. 1, some modern applications, e.g. to Portugal, 1898–9, will be found in Gooch and Temperley's British Diplomatic Documents on the Origins of the War, 1, v. esp. pp. 94–5, Editorial Note.