Hague Peace Conference
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a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1899, that established The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration.
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a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1907, that defined prisoner-of-war treatment, maritime warfare, and wartime neutrality.
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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
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)
This is a well-established rule, and was formally affirmed by the Great Powers at the Hague Peace Conference of 1907.
From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History
I did not find those signs at the Hague Peace Conference, when I was sent there in 1907 as being a war correspondent.
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
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