At the London Congress in 1883 Sir Charles Dilke said that there were many people who knew a little about the Danube, but that there was not a single one who knew the subject thoroughly. This remark, and the fact that the Allied and Associated Powers have declared, in the various Treaties signed in Paris in 1919 and 1920, that they are to draw up a "General Conven- tion" for the Regulation of traffic on the Donube and all other rivers declared international by those Trea- ties, have encouraged me to write this work. As the subject is a very comprehensive one I have divided it into two parts....
At the London Congress in 1883 Sir Charles Dilke said that there were many people who knew a little about the Danube, but that there was not a single ...