INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13332, 22 March 1911, Page 6

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.

BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Press Association.—Telegraph.-Copyright. OTTAWA, March 21. Sir W. Laurier warmly . supports the Anglo-American arbitraion proposals. He eulogised Sir E. Grey's speech, and looks i to the future for the realisation of peace and the union of the English-speaking peoples. , . AN AUSTRIAN AGITATION. Treaty with Italy Favoured. Received March; 22, 9.20 a.m. ■>. •? ■■■ VIENNA, March 21. : An agitation has been started in ment, urging the Government to delay the construction of warships, and . negotiate with ttalyr foran Arbitration treaty. COURT OF ARBITRAL JUSTICE. The American proposals were communicated -to: the Powers 'in an identical Circular Note by Mr Knox, then Secretary for State,- in 1908,. “Briefly,” according to an .article in the Daily Mail, “the proposal was for the investment of the International Prize Court with the'functions of a Court of Arbitral Justice. As its name implies, this Court would differ from the permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in the respect that it would* have the character of an actual Court of Law,, whose awards would be based not upon compromise or. considerations of diplomacy,. but upon recognised principles of international law and equity. In a ! speech last June, Mr Knox emphasised the the judicial as opposed to the diplomatic character of the proposed Court, which he was confident would be ultimately adopted by the nations. But such a Court requires both machinery and a clientele. As a first step in this direction the idea 'of an ‘unlimited’ arbitration treaty with some Great Power has been put forward by Mr. Carnegie, and supported in a recent deceleration by the President himself, who is engaged in consulting on the.subject, of Such a .treaty with . Great. Britain with members of Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs.' Hitherto the Senate has rejected—though by small -majorities—treaties of ‘unlimited’ arbitration; . with England, but if Mr Taft finds that , the Senate has changed , its miudi overtures will he made to Great Britain on the subject. Such a treaty, it is believed, will serve as the beginning of a network' of similar engagements between all the nations of the world.” PROPOSALS APPLAUDED BY CATHOLIC BISHOPS. A PESSIMISTIC CARDINAL. Eeecived ’March 22, 10.10 ,a.m. LONDON, March 21. The Catholic Bishops of Salford and Nottingham and Father Bernard'Vaughan applaud the proposals of President Taft 'and Sir Edvfard Grey. Cardinal Logue, whilst desiring universal peace, said he has no confidence in the movement while millions were screwed from the poor to build Dreadnoughts. .He was not hopeful that President Taft and Sir Edward Grey would conclude the treaty before better relations with GerIraany were established, and the Irish ques-tion-settled. *