Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
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Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
Peace; World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
(_b_) To prohibit any lending of capital or other moneys to
the citizens, companies, or subordinate administrations of the
recalcitrant State, or to its national Government;
(_c_) To prohibit the issue or dealing in or quotation on the
Stock Exchange or in the press of any new loans, debentures,
shares, notes or securities of any kind by any of the citizens,
companies or subordinate administrations of the recalcitrant
State, or of its national Government;
(_d_) To prohibit all postal, telegraphic, telephonic and
wireless communication with the recalcitrant State;
(_e_) To prohibit the payment of any debts due to the citizens,
companies or subordinate administrations of the recalcitrant
State, or to its national Government; and, if thought fit, to
direct that payment of such debts shall be made only to one or
other of the Constituent Governments, which shall give a good
and legally valid discharge for the same, and shall account for
the net proceeds thereof to the International High Court;
(_f_) To prohibit all imports, or certain specified imports,
coming from the recalcitrant State, or originating within it;
(_g_) To prohibit all exports, or certain specified exports
consigned directly to the recalcitrant State, or destined for
it;
(_h_) To prohibit all passenger traffic (other than the exit
of foreigners), whether by ship, railway, canal or road, to or
from the recalcitrant State;
(_i_) To prohibit the entrance into any port of the Constituent
States of any of the ships registered as belonging to the
recalcitrant State, except so far as may be necessary for any
of them to seek safety, in which case such ship or ships shall
be interned;
(_j_) To declare and enforce a decree of complete non-intercourse
with the recalcitrant State, including all the above-mentioned
measures of partial non-intercourse;
(_k_) To levy a special export duty on all goods destined for
the recalcitrant State, accounting for the net proceeds to the
International High Court;
(_l_) To furnish a contingent of war-ships to maintain a
combined blockade of one or more of the ports, or of the whole
coastline of the recalcitrant State.
The International High Court shall arrange for all the expenses incurred
in putting in force the above sanctions, including any compensation
for loss thereby incurred by any citizens, companies, subordinate
administrations or national Governments of any of the Constituent
States other than the recalcitrant State, to be raised by a levy on all
the Constituent States in such proportions as may be decided by the
International Council; and for the eventual recovery of the total sum by
way of additional penalty from the recalcitrant State.
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