_a._ The International Congress of Women urges that in all countries
there shall be liberty of commerce, that the seas shall be free and the
trade routes open on equal terms to the shipping of all nations.
_b._ Inasmuch as the investment by capitalists of one country in the
resources of another and the claims arising therefrom are a fertile
source of international complications, this International Congress of
Women urges the widest possible acceptance of the principle that such
investments shall be made at the risk of the investor, without claim to
the official protection of his government.