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make a supplementary clause to the protocol
by which the congress concluded the neutrality
of Luxemburg, whereby it was emphasized,
as a matter of course, that the article respecting
the destruction of the fortress of Luxemburg
did not imply any sort of limitation of the right
of the neutral State to maintain, or, if it chose,
to improve its own works of defence. Belgium
did indeed construct the great fortresses around
Antwerp long after the country was neutralized.
In reference to what one and another has
said about the value of the subject, nothing is
needed beyond the fact that neutral rights have,
even in its present position, been respected in
all essentials. That a neutral power must
abstain from mixing itself up with the policy of
other powers cannot imply a greater limitation
of its right to self-regulation than that a
guaranteeing power shall abstain from attacking
a neutralized State or from making military
alliance with it. There is certainly a limitation
for both parties, as far as is necessary for
adopting an intelligent union between
States,—a limitation of physical force and of love
of war.
The neutral State has not to submit to any
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