TO PREVENT WAR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 5

TO PREVENT WAR.

AN INTERNATIONAL POLICE POWER NEEDEDMR. ROOSEVELT ON HACUE\ TRIBUNAL. PROPOSAL TO LIMIT SIZE OF • SHIPS. Bjr Telesraph—ProM Association—Oopyrl2hi. London, May 5. .neuter's Agency has issued an advance .copy of Mr.. Roosevelt's forthcoming address before the Nobel Prize Committee, Stockholm. (Mr. Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peaco . Prizeapproximately £8000—in 1D06.)

For Industrial Peace. Referring to the application of his Nobel Prize to form the foundation of a scheme to forward industrial peace, he says some such movement is necessary to curb tho cruel greed and arrogance of capital, and tho cruel greed and violence of labour, and aa a check to the cruel, unhealthy militarism in international relations. Continuing, Mr. Roosevelt makes, firstly, a strong plea in favour of treaties of arbitration and the development of The Hague Tribunal. In the second place, he argues that the work of tho United States Supreme Court has done something in the direction of securing good relations among the American States. That work offers ■ valuable analogies, recognition of which would make it possible for a Hague Court of Arbitral Justice to be rendered effective for the purpose of securing similar results on a world scale. The International Movement. Thirdly, something should be done as soon as possible to check the growth of armaments by an international agreement. No Power could, or should, act alone, but granted sincerity of purpose, the Great Powers should find no insurmountable difficulty in reaching an agreement which would put an end to the growing extravagance with respect to naval armaments. An agreement to limit the size of ships would have been very useful a few,years ago, and would still be valuable. Finally, the address states, it would be a master stroke if the Great Powers formed a League of Peace, to forcibly prevent others from breaking the peace. The supreme difficulty with regard to The Hague Tribunal arises from the lack of-police .power to enforce the Court's decrees. "Each nation must be well prepared to defend itself until an international police power has been established—a power competent to prevent violence between nations." Stockholm, May 5. Mr. Roosevelt addressed the Nobel Prize Committee to-day. He claimed that he had tried, when President of the United States, to do what ho is now advocating.