IN QUEST OF PEACE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 26 April 1913, Page 5

IN QUEST OF PEACE.

:'THINKJNG SPACE FOR THE NATIONS"

MR. W. J. BRYAN'S SCHEME. / By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. April 25, 10 p.m.) . Washington, April 25. Tho United States Secretary of State's (Mr. W. J. Bryan's) peace scheme has been placed before a conference of Ambassadors and Ministers. • * . The President, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, later, told the newspaper men that the effect of the proposal would merely be to afford a ithinking space for tho nations beforo a war was declared. The proposal did not bind them in any way. Mr. Bryan has decided, to delete tho paragraph providing for the suspension of warlike preparations while the Peaco Court is investigating the issues at stake between the conflicting nations. Such a point, President Wilson thought, was one that was best left to be arranged with the individual nations. A recent Washington message states that Mr. W. J. Bryan, United States Secretary for State, had outlined a plan to negotiate for treaties of peace between the United States and other nations, and tho ultimate abolition of war. Ho suggested an international non-arbitration court on similar lines to that proposed by Mr. Taft, to deal with all questions, including those of national honour. This court's work would only bo to discover facts, the, nations participating in tho controversy at tlfo moment in tlio meanwhile pledging themselves not to alter their military status or prepare for war. The court would place the facts beforo ,tho world, leaving the nations involved ill tho dispute to decide afterwards whether they would fight or arbitrate.