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Show Using Law Books to Advantage. One supposes that it is the duty of naval officers to fight, not negotiate. Nevertheless, all officers of modern navies have-more to do with international: inter-national: law than with ball and cannon. can-non. 'Prof!-' Moore of Columbia, was lecturing a few summers ago at the Newport Naval College, and international inter-national law was one of the most important im-portant studies. The professor was setting1" "forth all imaginable situations and allowing the students to suggest the best way out of them. One of the men could not appreciate the value of law in a sea fight. What he was yearning for was powder and shot. Asked by the professor as to what argument for international law he would use to convince the enemy of their error, he said contemptuously. "I would le.t them have all the volumes vol-umes . of international law in wad form, and add the supplement by way of emphasis." |