AMERICA.
FREEKDSHSP WfTH BRITAIN
ROOSEVELT'S PROPOSAL
(Received Dec, 13, 3.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 12
Ex-President Roosevelt, in a letter fco Mr George Haven Putnam, the American, leader oil the Englishspeaking Union, urges the creation of an arbitration court to settle all possible disputes between the United States and England. . .
Roosevelt says: This war has made ; the majority of thinking men in the United States realise that the .peoples of the United States and the British Empire possess ideals and interests in common. I think the time has come when the United States and the, British Empire can agree to a universal arbitration treaty. We should say that under no circumstances shall there over be .resort 'k> war between the United States and the "British Empire. The "New York Times" strongly endorses Hoosevelt's views.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9476, 13 December 1918, Page 5
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