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extensive trade a small but efficient navy in order not to be 

 at the mercy of everybody! Why does one grudge us what one 

 finds natural in other powers? Truth and fairness in the press 

 would make things much easier and allow nations to under- 

 stand each other. 



Eugen H. A. von Roeder 



James One evening Christin and I dined with James 



Brown Scott, then Assistant Secretary of State in 

 charge of peace and arbitration. He seemed very 

 hopeful as to the outlook, and thought that the main 

 obstacle to an International Court thus far encoun- 

 tered failure to agree on the method of choice of 

 permanent judges was in a fair way to adjustment. 

 Both Knox and Scott placed their dependence on 

 public opinion for the enforcement of decrees, rather 

 than on the employment of military means or even 

 of the boycott, the latter a two-edged sword cutting 

 first the hand that wields it. And I think that they 

 were right, for, as our fathers recognized in 1776 "a 

 decent regard for the opinions of mankind" is 

 a vital necessity in any enterprise, personal or 

 national. 



After a time, for reasons not made public, Scott 

 withdrew from the Department and the special 

 position he held was not continued. 



Endow- In December of this year also, Andrew Carnegie 

 mentfor established the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- 

 tional Peace, with a capital sum of $10,000,000. 

 Among the trustees was Andrew D. White, who at 

 once asked my advice as to the administration of the 

 trust. I therefore venture to insert here, as giving 

 my point of view, the following reply to White's 

 letter: 



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