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Cst ce qui arrive iux nations qui no Sent pas en 6at do fairs respecter leur torritoh : Ie thftre de ja goerre sy 6tabht biontht. on y marehe. on y campe. on sy ba t. comme dans un pays snvert it tons venants." (Phillimore on nternational Law. pages 22228. After citing some illustrative cases. Phillimore goes on to say: In all cases where the territory of one nation is invaded from the country of an. other whether the invading force be composed of the refugees of the country invaded or of satbets of the other country or of both. the government of the invaded country has a right to be satisfied that the country from which the invasion has come has neither by sufferance nor reception tpatienti aut receptu) knowingly aided or abetted it. She miastpurgehereelf of boththesecharges . otherwise if the cause be the feebleness of her government the invaded country is warranted in redressing her own wrong by entering the territory and destroying the preparations of war therein made against heor. or if these have been encouraged by the government. then the invaded country has a strict right to make war upon that country herself. because hboo a afforded not merely an asylum lut the means of hostility to thefoes of a nation with whom she was at peace. For it never can be maintained that however much a state may suffer from piratical incursions which the feebleness of the executive government of the ountrywhonce they issue renders it incaable of preventing or punishing. that until such government slhll voluntarily acknosledge the faot the injured state hasno right to give itself that security which ito neighbors government admits that it oghtto enjoy. but which that government is unable to guarantee. 1t musI bo admitted that there is a practical acknowledgment of such inability which. as much as a voluntary confession. justifies the offended country in a course of action which would under other circumstaneo be unlawful.