Show VENEZUELA DISPUTE the indications are that the united states and great britian leave arrived at terms of arbitration whereby the die strip of land claimed by both british guiana and venezuela will be awarded to the country having the beit established right thereto venezuela has claimed all the land alyine westward of the but has all along been willing to submit to any form of arbitration great britain on the other hand has claimed an unassailable title to the lands east of the burgh line a line which follows the contour of a range of mountains which forms the watershed between the orinoco and rivers at the time the united states interfered in behalf of venezuela and in support of the monroe doctrine great britain peremptorily re fused to deal with the united states in the settlement of the dispute and publicly declared it would not submit to a compromise of any kind quite a change has come over lord salisbury in he past bis months and now he makes known that england has agreed to submit that hortien of the disputed territory to arbitration over which neither side can chow exclusive notorious and actual occupation for sixty years this is a notable victory tor the united states and is an acknowledgment of the monroe doctrine establish precedent a which gives it standing as international law |