SUGGESTED MEDIATION.
It has been pointed out by the State department in Washington that a popular movement reported in press despatches from Belgium having in view a petition to President M'Kinley a-sking him to offer to become mediator to the belligerents in South Africa is altogether misdirected, and showa ignorance of American policy of abstention from intruding; in matters which are not of this country's buf>ine«c. The two nations interested are aware that the President would accept rarornptly and with pleasure any suggestion of mediation coming- from both of them, but neither country had given any hint of desiring anything but neutrality from the United States.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 8
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106SUGGESTED MEDIATION. Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 8
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