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Excerpt from The Neutral Merchant: In Relation to the Law of Contraband of War and Blockade Under the Order in Council of 11th March 1915
It is not customary, except in one clear case, for a neutral Government to insist that a belligerent should adopt, in medias res, its views of a question which does not involve any issue of peace or war to press on him, in medium bellum, a modification of his belligerent action which might cost him the victory. The clear case of exception 1s when, philosophy at fault, there are not two sides to the question, but one only, and that testified to by ¿agrant breaches of the laws of humanity and war. Everything else is fair fighting; and for a neutral Government, because its own commercial interests are affected, to insist on the adoption of its view of a debateable point, to persist that it is not debateable, to take action, in itself a violation of international law,1 savours of unneutral service. In the absence of suggestion of any thing but perfect good faith, in the face of much demonstrated care of the interests of its citizens, the abandonment by a neutral Government of the dispassionate attitude which neutrality re quires not merely heartens the enemy but must result in rendering him material assistance.
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