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the negotiators saw it, and wanted to get rid of it. There is nothing 

 anywhere to suggest that the negotiators were thinking of the diffi- 

 culties of this little 3.98 miles that Mr. Warren says is the limit of it; 

 there is nothing to indicate that at all. The negotiators were think- 

 ing of something much wider and much more important than that. 

 But Mr. Warren suggests that in order to get rid of the difficulty of 

 the triangle you are to carry the idea down into the end of the bays. 

 On the Halifax idea, and the idea of the United States Argument, 

 you would have all the difficulties with the triangle in a bay a little 

 over 6 miles in width. A 6-mile bay is to be closed; then you draw a 

 line 3 miles from that and there is no triangle. But, on the Halifax 

 idea, and the United States Argument idea, you do not close a 6- 

 mile bay. In that case you follow the sinuosities of the shore, and 

 there is the same triangle. 



You have all the difficulties of a 6^-mile bay that the negotiators 

 were trying to get rid of in fact, giving up, as Mr. Warren says, 

 non-territorial water to Great Britain to get rid of them. Yet, they 

 did not get rid of difficulties in the case of 6J, or 7, or 8-mile bays, 

 that Mr. Warren says they desired to get rid of. To effectuate this, 

 he proposes to carry his lines to the end of the large bays no matter 

 what width they are and wherever the distance between the shores 

 diminishes to 6 miles he draws a line across from shore to shore, 

 and another 3 miles out from there and thus gets rid of all triangles. 

 That is his suggestion. I quote from Mr. Warren's typewritten argu- 

 ment at the middle of p. 3651 [p. 606] : 



" THE PRESIDENT : I do not quite understand it. Will you be so 

 kind as to give it in a little more explicit way ? 



' " MR. WARREN : Your question, Mr. President, was this : As to 

 whether or not the triangle about which I have been speaking was 

 a part of the territorial waters of Great Britain, in respect of fishing, 

 under the terms of the treaty. 



" THE PRESIDENT : Yes, that was the first question. 



" MR. WARREN : Then answering that question I would say : It 

 certainly was. Now, the second question was, Whether or not there 

 were not points or places within that triangle which would be more 

 than three miles from shore. 



" THE PRESIDENT : Yes. 



" MR. WARREN : Assuredly ; any point within that triangle would 

 be outside. If the President pleases, we have a chart 



" THE PRESIDENT : A chart would be very useful. 

 752 " MR. WARREN : Which we claim to be somewhat more elab- 

 orate than the chart submitted by counsel for Great Britain, 

 but, using temporarily the chart that was submitted, in the absence 

 of the other chart, I will answer the President's question from the one 

 furnished by counsel for Great Britain. 



" Any place within that triangle which was outside of the segment 

 of the circles described by a radius three miles long, swung from the 

 opposite shores, would be beyond three miles from shore; but, the 



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