CONTENTS.
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER II. THE NEUTRALITY OF EUROPEAN POWERS
CHAPTER III. CONTRABAND OF WAR AND NEUTRAL PORTS
CHAPTER IV. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
CHAPTER I.
THE NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES.
The neutral attitude assumed by the United States was maintained
throughout the war. With reference to any official recognition of the
Transvaal as an independent State apart from the immediate purposes of
war no action was taken. This view of the situation in South Africa was
entirely consistent with the requirements of international law, and, in
carrying out the obligations of a neutral to the belligerents, the
governmental position was fully justified by a knowledge of the
relations which had existed between the Transvaal and Great Britain in
the past.
Early in October, before war had actually begun, it was understood that
Mr. Pierce, the Orange Free State consul-general in New York, had made
every effort to induce President McKinley to request other nations to
act with the United States as arbitrators in the dispute between the
Governments of the Transvaal and Great Britain, but the close friendship
existing between England and the United States and the very friendly
attitude assumed by Great Britain during the Spanish-American War made
such action impossible.
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