ABOLITION OF WAR
WASHINGTON, April 22. The Secretary of State (Mr Bryan) has outlined a plan to negotiate treaties of peace between the United States and other nations, and with a view to the ultimate abolition of war and the estab lishment of an international court on similar lines to Mr Taft’s proposal for dealing with all questions, including those of national honour. The court, however, would work only to discover the facts, the nations participating in the controversy at the moment meanwhile pledging themselves not to alter their military status or to prepare for war. The court would then place the facts before the w'orld, leaving the nations involved in the dispute to decide thereafter whether they should fight or arbitrate. April 25. Mr Bryan’s peace scheme was placed before a conference of Ambassadors and Ministers. President Wilson afterwards told the newspaper men that the effect of the proposal was merely to afford thinking space to nations before war was declared. They did not bind them in any way. Mr Bryan has decided to delete the paragraph providing for the suspension of warlike preparations while the Peace Court is investigating. Such a point, President Wilson thought, would be best arranged with individual nations.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3085, 30 April 1913, Page 24
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204ABOLITION OF WAR Otago Witness, Issue 3085, 30 April 1913, Page 24
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