xxxviii INTRODUCTION 



on one side, it never happened to be met by the 

 like quality on the other. 



The moral of the story which Professor Dun 

 ning has told so clearly is that peace can always 

 be kept, whatever be the grounds of contro 

 versy, between peoples that wish to keep it. 

 Mr. Root, the greatest of Webster s successors in 

 the office of secretary of state, has well said that 

 there is no issue in diplomacy which cannot be 

 settled if the negotiators sincerely try to settle 

 it. The questions that arose between these two 

 countries were questions in which, especially on 

 the American side, the negotiators could not act 

 without having the mind and will of the people 

 behind them, because the people had some 

 knowledge of the questions, a knowledge far 

 wider than European nations have of the con 

 troversies that arise between their governments. 

 The people could exert their judgment, and 

 their judgment, even in moments of excitement, 

 realized how frightful would be the calamities of 

 a fratricidal war. 



This feeling has grown immensely stronger 

 within the last half-century, as any one whose 

 recollection extends that far back can testify. 

 It is a guarantee of unbroken peace for the 

 future. May not that sense of an unbreakable 



