Building the Palace of Peace: The Hague Conference of 1907 and Arms Control before the World War
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PU NISHERS Journal of the History ofInternational Law 9 (2007) 35-81 J IIL
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Building the Palace of Peace: The Hague Conference
of 1907 and Arms Control before the World War
Scott Andrew Keefer*
Trento, Italy
[H]ow much further and greater a step we could take in advance if for a single year
this great country of ours should cry 'Stop!' to the building of battleships and devote
the same amount of money to the erection ... of a temple of peace, and show a con-
fidence and a belief in our fellowmen all over the world.'
Henry M. Leipziger, Lake Mohonk Arbitration Conference, 1905.
Retrospect - Copenhagen, August 1807
In August 1807, British diplomats desultorily withdrew to their man-of-war
in Copenhagen harbor after unsuccessfully negotiating for control of the
Danish fleet with representatives of the latter nation's government. In the
midst of a titanic struggle with Napoleonic France, the possession of the
neutral Danish fleet would tip the naval balance of power decisively.2 The
* Fulbright Junior Research Fellow 2004-2005, Max Planck Institute for Comparative
Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. The author would like to thank
the German-American Fulbright Commission and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute
for their invaluable support and guidance. E-mail: scottkeefer@fulbrightweb.org.
I) Address of Henry M. Leipziger, as quoted in Report of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of
the Mohonk Lake Conference on International Arbitration i905, 121, i22 (1905).
z) J.H. Rose, Canning and Denmark in 1807, I English Historical Review 82, at 86
(1896).
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DOI: 10.1163/138819907X187297](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/jhintl9&div=7&collection=journals&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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