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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS.
In other ways the European powers have
shown that, with a little willingness to do so,
they can work together in the interests of peace.
We have an illustrative instance of this in the
Danube Commission, which, since 1856, has
watched over the traffic in the Delta of the
Danube, neutralized by the Treaty of Paris.
This commission, which is composed of
members from all the great powers and Turkey
and Roumania, and was originally appointed
only for a short time, has, in consideration of
its great value as an international institution,
been renewed from year to year, and has had
its power gradually extended. The commission
possesses its own flag, its customs and pilotage,
its police, its little fleet, and so on. It has
for thirty years exercised an almost unlimited
power over the mouths of the Danube, has
made laws, raised a loan, carried out works,
and in many other respects given evidence of
the possibility of united co-operation amongst
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