AMERICA AND PEACE.
SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT. By Tdegraph—Press Associaii-on—Copyrieht New York, May 4. President Taft, addressing tho National Peace Congress at Baltimore, emphasised the point that the United States did not desire extension of territory in any direction. As a matter of fact, the peoplo would not permit- tho Government to indulge in territorial aggrandisement. Mr. J. A. M'Donald, editor of the "Toronto Globe," declared that Canada had most to gain from peaco and most to lose by an outbreak of war.
ARBITRATION AND RECIPROCITY. (Rcc. May 6, 1.5 a.m.) Ottawa, May 5. Mr. James Bryce, British Ambassador at "Washington, v.-ho is visiting Earl Grey, t'.io Governor-General, declared to an interviewer that satisfactory progress was being made in drawing up the peace pact between Great Britain and tlio United States. Mr. Taft had been much gratified at Great Britain's warm reception of his proposals. The Ambassador refused to discuss reciprocity, stating that America had not niado it a party question to tho extent that the Canadians had.
Ho' hoped that tho Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty would prove a lesson to the whole world.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11110, 6 May 1911, Page 5
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