Deseret Evening News | 1900-03-03 | Page 17 | England Couldn't

Would IJo be Powerless to Attack Vero Declared A British diplomatist has recently der de the remarkable fact that Great BritaIn would be powerless to attack Switzerland were ere war U declared ble as It may seem she would be unable un unable able to take any allY ships against the littie lit i tie republic and In case ot of Q a ion ot of war nothing would result ex except an interruption of diplomatic and commercial lal relations between the thc two countries for tor cannot take place except fill na the high N seas or with withIn to In the territories ot of Ih the nen England and Switzerland the tha form former r Ate are out of the question and tb the latter could not arise unless a 11 pas pal passage sage was 81 granted through n 11 neutral state During the eighteenth century It was WIS an doctrine that a neutral state might aglow the troops tit at ontO one belligerent to pillS pass through its territory without giving eau reuse for com cam plaint to 10 the Ibe other but r recent nt authorities tit ties on international law are o opposed Pi ed to tothill t a this thill and modern supports them No attempt has hils been n made to exercise such supposed right of pas passage sage Ae when hen the allies nilles crossed to attack France In 1610 at the ot of Great Britain reused a passage of the Ocr Oer man wounded d and the not only declined to allow volunteers from Al AI Alsace sace to pass h their country but bul interned II a bod body 0 of Fren French h troops trooP who whit whitcO cO their thel r frontier Such Sueh a war I is alto on other grounds for tor fora a was as sIgned at Paris ParI November roo D iSIL 1 15 b by lb lime ot of Ortt Britain Austria France and an d Russia whereby they formally d te neu neutrality of Switzerland and the inviolability ot of Us Its territory