Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — NEUTRALS TO JOIN IN TRADE [ARTICLE]

NEUTRALS TO JOIN IN TRADE

Will Foiin League to Override Belligerent Restrictions. Washington, D. C., November 13. —Full details of the recent proposal to the Brazilian parliament by the Brazilian Society of International Law for the formation of a league of neutrals to resist trade restrictions and other encroachments by belligerents were made public here today through the official gazette of the Brazilian parliament. The proposed league would consist of all present neutrals, and would spring automatically into effect whenever another war broke out. The society, in an exhaustive report, reviews the constant encroachments by belligerents on neutral trade and urges' the government to take immediate steps to procure the co-operation of all neutrals for the declaration of a uniform series of neutral rights and for their enforcement of the same. Rights suggested are the immunity •of enemy goods under a neutral flag, complete liberty of trade between neutral nations regardless of ultimate destination, freedom from any extra territorial actions such as blacklisting, and the forbidding of any alien to inform a foreign government of matters which might lead to belligerent restrictions. Violations of these rights would be met under the plan, first by the withdrawal by the neutral league of the privileges of friendly treatment for the offending nation, including the trade rights. In case a consular or diplomatic official should be concerned, his credentials would be handed him at Once.