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to diverge. The United States Government, perhaps
fortunately, misunderstands the meaning and intention
of the joint Allied note so that it is admissible to
explain its terms in further detail and there is nothing
in the declarations as above revised inconsistent with
the original declarations of which indeed they are
merely an expanded form, embodying the logical con-
clusion from the argument that immediately precedes
them in the joint note.
The Council attach great importance to an explicit
statement of the principles underlying the practice
of the postal censorship with regard to the detention
of correspondence. In the joint Allied note the
discussion was permitted to stray beyond an exposition
of the justice and necessity of the military measures
being taken and was, to some extent, confused by the intrusion into the argument of political considerations advanced in a spirit of compromise. The United States
Government has been quick to take advantage of the equivocal language used in the third paragraph of the Allied declaration in which an assurance is riven of temporary fidelity to engagements which are not admitted to be nor are in fact binding. Ignoring the qualifying phrase "for the present", which was clearly intended to suggest a concession to goodwill rather than to admit a right, that Government proceeds to base on the qualified gift of an inch a claim to a substantial ell, in the shape of a complete renunciation of the right to detain correspondence whether found on the high seas or in ships which voluntarily or involuntarily enter territorial waters. Nothing will meet this point but an unequivocal declaration the the action of the Allied Governments does not, in fact, constitute any violation of the usages of International Law. Article 1 of the 11th Hague Convention provides
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