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THE EDEN MEMOIRS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW1) By D.H.N.JOHNSON2) I GENERAL REMARKS International lawyers are often attacked from two different sides at once. According to one line of attack, they live in a sort of ivory tower, remote from the real world, where they dabble in idealistic abstractions. According to the other line of attack, they are just cynical hacks, always ready to find a legal justification for what their national political masters want to do. Aware of these dangers, many members of our profession try to steer a middle course. Whilst keep- ing abreast of the political controversies of the day, they hesitate to comment on them for fear of doing so when the facts are still obscure and ripe judgment is impossible. This is an honourable tendency, but it can be taken too far. The further it is taken, the less likely are international law and international lawyers ever to influence the course of events. This review by an international lawyer of the memoirs of a famous international statesman3) seems to me therefore a legitimate venture in itself, if a rather unusual one. Even from a narrow technical angle the venture can be justified. For if, as
Nordic Journal of International Law – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1961
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