Note 31 — Chapter II · COMPULSIVE SETTLEMENT OF STATE DIFFERENCES
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For this reason—see Heilborn, System, p. 352, and Wagner, Zur Lehre von den Streiterledigungsmitteln des Völkerrechts (1900), pp. 53-60—it is correctly maintained that retorsion, in contradistinction to reprisals, is not of legal, but only of political importance. Nevertheless, a system of the Law of Nations must not omit the matter of retorsion altogether, because retorsion is in practice an important means of settling political differences.