Note 39 — INTRODUCTION

Moltke, in his well-known correspondence with Professor Bluntschli, is moved to denounce the St. Petersburg Convention which designs as “le seul but légitime” of waging war, “l’affaiblissement des forces militaires,” and this he denies most energetically on the ground that, on the contrary, all the resources of the enemy, country, finances, railways, means of subsistence, even the prestige of the enemy’s government, ought to be attacked. [This, of course, means the policy of “Terrorismus,” i.e., terrorization.—J. H. M.]