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PEACE TREATIES

QUESTION OF INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT. WOULD IT END WARFARE? •San Francisco, 9th August. The United States definitely assumed the leadership of the world in the matter of international peace when, on 3rd August, signatures were attached to treaties between this country and Great Britain and France broadening the principle of arliitration beyond anything heretofore agreed upon by civilised nations. The initiative in each case came from the; American Government. To President Tuft and his administration is unquestionably due the credit of making the courageous proposal that matters involving national honor should be submitted ,to arbitration. Manv 'American newspapers believe that the signing of these, treaties will have such a wide-felt effect that the peace of the world as now practically assured. Considerable support is given to the French proposal that other nations should be coerced into similar treaties under threat of an international boycott. Tills country probably would not be ready to take the initiative in such a matter, but very likely would enter into an agreement with Great Britain if those nations came forward with the miggestion. The idea, as stated in the Paris Figaro, according to cablegrams, is that if other nations do not join the unlimited arbitration movement, they should be boycotted by the insertion of a clause in the agreements providing that the-arbitra-tion countries shall suspend all relations of commerce, transportation, and postal intercourse with a country warring on one of the signers. For example, the paper says, if the United States, Great Britain, and France should- boycott Germany by refusing all relations with her, snch action would he certain to cause the confusion and ruin of that nation. By boycotting, obligatory arbitration would be obtained, and then the limitation of armaments.

Such comment as has been made on this bold proposal in the United States is decidedly in accord with its spirit. The suggestion is made, however, that it would scarcely he possible to adopt agreements binding the signers to the principle of international boycotts until a few more of the strong nations have entered into unlimited arbitration treaties. Then, it its pointed out, it would be quite feasible to refuse commercial intercourse with the aggressor in a war.

Disarmament is the next consummation that will be worked for by peace advocates. Broad arbitration treaties between the United States and Japan, England, Germany, Russia, and France, and between each other, would certainly be followed bv a lessening of the burden of armies and navies. "After the general acceptance of arbitration will come general arbitration." writes one newspaper, addin? cnthusia^ticallv: "Dreadnoughts ■will go to the junk pile, and great armies will he disbanded. The immense war debt of the nation will remain, tot the increasing of the principal will cease, and real statesmen will have a chance to work out the salvation, of nations now threatened with lviinkruptcv." It is generally believed that Japan will i he the next nation to undertake the negotiation of a general arbitration treaty with the United States. The revised 'An<rlo-Japanese treatv, with the modification tint neither England nor Japan shall he bound to assist the other in a 'wax with ,a nation with which the assisting country has a treatv of arbitration, removed the one obstacle to the conclusion of a treaty between America and Ja.pan. That modification was of course necessary before general arbitration could be effected between Great Britain and America. It mean* that under no circumstances would Great Britain he hound ,by its treaty obligations with 'Japan to as*j*t Japan fci a war against 'the United States. The new treaty of commerce and navigation .between' the United States and Japan-was signed last month, and is now in effect. Tts important point of difference from the treaty which it supplants is that it omits the paragraph restricting immigration, which wa.s objectionable to the Japanese, America relying upon the honor of Japan to carry out the spirit cf existing undertakings, which .prevent the departure of Japanese coolies to America.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 14 September 1911, Page 7

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PEACE TREATIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 14 September 1911, Page 7

PEACE TREATIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 14 September 1911, Page 7

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