The South-African crisis - pagina 57

!

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

Zwaziland prevented him that would

have

"paramountcy"

been he

O-

To

not

did

protect the Protector

but as

absurd;

too

53

CRISIS.

for

his

from urging

desist

it.

England was a great power, the Boer States were small republics included in her territory. England

was

fully

justified,

therefore,

considering

in

these

small States as coming within her sphere of influence.

Even

over

pretentions

2).

exercise

to

Free

the

As the

a

State

put

she

Great Powers endeavour

six

hegemony

certain

forward her

over

States

second and third rank in Europe, England

assume an analogous headship over But could

this

only

was

to

exist

that

forget

3)

a

right.

all jurists

ought to

South Africa!

all

such

by force never by

exception of Mr. Lorimer,

are

supremacy

With

the

unanimous

in maintaining as a principle of international e([uality of

of

law the

States between themselves. Thus M. Rivier

says distinctly.

him no other 4, Mr. Chamberlain always found himself driven into a corner. As with individuals so with States supremacy can only be admitted de facto by the superiority of moral, But can it be said intellectual, or physical power. that in Africa England has given proof of her moral But the

Convention

of 1884 giving

right than that of veto, as defined in article

superiority

by her repeated violation of

treaties, or of

intellectual superiority in her diplomatic disputes

')

Convention of'Dec.

2)

Acts of Parliament

»)

Institutes of the

10th. 1894. See p.

Law

KocK, Conventies en

278.

of Nations

I,

p.

47 17039.

with

tr((ctaten, p,6i.

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