Hague Peace Conference

American  

noun

1. a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1899, that established The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration.

2. a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1907, that defined prisoner-of-war treatment, maritime warfare, and wartime neutrality.

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Example Sentences

While still a junior at Princeton, Dulles was taken by his grandfather to the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 19, he was secretary of China's delegation at the Second Hague Peace Conference; at 30, he served on the Reparations Commission at Versailles.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the almost universal demoralization of foreign policy which has followed The Hague Peace Conference of 1899, it has perhaps been impossible for a single statesman to tread a straight path.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

The Second Hague Peace Conference acted on this principle, for a good many of its Conventions were only agreed upon by the greater number, and not by all, of the participating States.

From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

Had the International Prize Court agreed upon by the Second Hague Peace Conference of 1907 been established, there would have come into existence another institution of the Community of States.

From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)