Chapter 18
Austria-Hungary.
France.
Germany.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Russia.
Smaller States are:
Bulgaria.
Denmark.
Greece.
Holland.
Montenegro.
Norway.
Portugal.
Roumania.
Servia.
Spain.
Sweden.
Turkey.
Very small, but nevertheless full-Sovereign, States are:
Monaco and Lichtenstein.
Neutralised States are:
Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxemburg.
Half-Sovereign States are:
Andorra (under the protectorate of France and Spain).
San Marino (under the protectorate of Italy).
Crete (under the suzerainty of Turkey).
Part-Sovereign States are:
(_a_) Member-States of Germany:
Kingdoms: Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg.
Grand-Duchies: Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg.
Dukedoms: Anhalt, Brunswick, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar.
Princ.i.p.alities: Reuss Elder Line, Reuss Younger Line, Lippe, Schaumburg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Waldeck.
Free Towns are: Bremen, Lubeck, Hamburg.
(_b_) Member-States of Switzerland:
Zurich, Berne, Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden (ob und nid dem Wald), Glarus, Zug, Fribourg, Soleure, Basle (Stadt und Landschaft), Schaffhausen, Appenzell (beider Rhoden), St. Gall, Grisons, Aargau, Thurgau, Tessin, Vaud, Valais, Neuchatel, Geneva.
[Sidenote: American States.]
-- 109. In America there are twenty-one States which are members of the Family of Nations, but it must be emphasised that the member-States of the five Federal States on the American continent, although they are part-Sovereign, have no footing within the Family of Nations, because the American Federal States, in contradistinction to Switzerland and Germany, absorb all possible
In North America there are:
The United States of America.
The United States of Mexico.
In Central America there are:
Costa Rica.
Cuba.
San Domingo.
Guatemala.
Hayti.
Honduras.
Nicaragua.
Panama (since 1903).
San Salvador.
In South America there are:
The United States of Argentina.
Bolivia.
The United States of Brazil.
Chili.
Colombia.
Ecuador.
Paraguay.
Peru.
Uruguay.
The United States of Venezuela.
[Sidenote: African States.]
-- 110. In Africa the Negro Republic of Liberia is the only real and full member of the Family of Nations. Egypt and Tunis are half-Sovereign, the one under Turkish suzerainty, the other under French protectorate.
Morocco and Abyssinia are both full-Sovereign States, but for some parts only within the Family of Nations. The Soudan has an exceptional position; being under the _condominium_ of Great Britain and Egypt, a footing of its own within the Family of Nations the Soudan certainly has not.
[Sidenote: Asiatic States.]
-- 111. In Asia only j.a.pan is a full and real member of the Family of Nations. Persia, China, Siam, Tibet, and Afghanistan are for some parts only within that family.