ARBITRATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 30 March 1911, Page 5

ARBITRATION

DENMARK AND BRITAIN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyrisht. Copenhagen, March 28. The Foreign Minister, speaking in the Landsthing, said that in renewing the arbitration treaty with Britain, the Government sought to extend its basis, especially after the proposals made by Mr. Taft and Sir Edward Grey, but Britain had declined on the ground that the treaty with the United States would have precedence over a!' expiring treaties. Lord Charles Bcresford, in an interview on the lath inst., declared that an ,üb ; - tration treatv between Britain and America, would ensure the world's peace and ultimate disarmament. Tf both countries agreed upon a policy of disarmament, it was hard to conceive of anv nation attempting war with such an' agreement in existence. The international race for armament, said Lord Charles, must inevitablv result in universal bankruptcy and in an early war. The United States must take the initiative. Engbnd was the most vulnerable nation in tS' world, because the seizure of her trade routes in the event of war would cripple her desperatclv within a week. To England it would be a mattsr of life and death, while to other Powerit would merely be an inconvenience. America, on the other hand, was invulnerable, and was able to take the lead in establishing universal arbitration, but if unable to establish the peace principle unaided .she could easily succeed with Britain's co-operation.