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Show ARBITRATION PLAN IMPOSED WASHINGTON, May 17. Tho principle prin-ciple of arbitration of practically all disputes between ai nations, including includ-ing questions of vital Interest and national honor, assumed vitally today when Secretary Knox submitted to the rBltish and French ambassadors at Wushlngton, the craft of a convention conven-tion to serve as a basts or negotiations. negotia-tions. - t -I Tho fact that thiR movement would! bojN inaugurated with ErurcoJas wlj ns.jwltb. Gret Brjuijnrcamcasj ajsyr-rise ajsyr-rise as It was gonernfly understood I that only (tho. United. Elates, ahd Eug-land Eug-land were jConcef nod. ' J ,'y When rPosldeifl Thft laSr-Docem her enunclnled the dpclrlno of coin-1 prehenslve arbitration be received ax quick response j from Ambassadors Bryco and JusScrand th'ab Groat Brit-1 ain and Franco were willing to bebm' negotiations wlih this country for th", peaceful settlement of practlcallj, all; differences that may arise."' Tho president instructed Secretar Knox Immediately to crystallze the arbitral proposition which this government gov-ernment would offer to foreign na-tlonB, na-tlonB, ' Tho secretary has Involved a docu- ment which received the approval of tho president and other members of his cabinet, providing that all dlffr-ences dlffr-ences which are internationally Justiciable Just-iciable shall be submitted to arbitration ar-bitration treaties by eliminating tho exceptions referring lo "questions of vital interest and imtlonal honor " This elimination Is the real accomplishment accom-plishment of the proposed treaty. The elimination is the real accomplishment accomplish-ment of the proposed treaty. The exceptions mentloneti are found In arbitration treaties the world oier and have constituted the chief obstacle obsta-cle to the application of the arbitration arbitra-tion principle for it Is hard to conceive con-ceive of a problem which, in Its es senccapnot be regarded', ac having a. eorhi'.ojllng,. influence on "national horior&?oriiyltaJ Interest." |