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NEUTRALITY.
Side by side with the idea of arbitration,
another pacific idea, already powerful, is
pressing forward, and growing into an International
Law, namely, the Law of Neutrality.
He is neutral, who neither takes part for, nor
against, in a dispute. Neutrality is the
impartial position which is not associated with either
party. The State is called neutral which
neither takes part in a war itself, nor in time of
war sides with any of the warring parties.
In ancient times neutrality was not
understood as a national right. Neither the Greek
nor the Latin language has any word to
express the idea. In the days when Roman
policy was seeking to drag all the nations of
the earth into its net, the Romans saw in other
peoples only tributaries who had been subdued
by their armies, subject nations who had
submitted to the Roman yoke, allies who were
compelled to join in their policy of conquest, or
lastly enemies, who sooner or later would have
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