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the Arbitration at Geneva have, on the other hand, made us to see 

 the possibility of arriving at a common understanding for the 

 settlement of such contradictions." — Extract from Letter. 



EMILE DE LAVELEVE. 



(Political Economist at the University of Lifege), 1874. 

 " This Treaty of Washington, by virtue of which the principal 

 differences between England and the United States have been 

 referred to, and satisfactorily settled by Arbitration, not only restores 

 harmony between the two great branches of the race that represents 

 freedom in the world, but it gives an authoritative sanction to the 

 principle and practice of such Arbitration. Such an example will 

 not be lost ; it will bear its fruit in the future." 



MR. HAYES. 



(President of the United States of America), 1878. 

 "The policy inaugurated by my honoured predecessor, President 

 Grant, of submitting to arbitration grave questions in dispute 

 between ourselves and Foreign Powers, points to a new, and 

 comparatively the best, instrumentality for the preservation of 

 peace, and will, as I believe, become a beneficent example, of 

 course to be pursued in similar emergencies by other nations. If, 

 unhappily, questions of diiiference should, at any time during the 

 period of my administration, arise between the United States and 

 any Foreign Government, it will certainly be my disposition and my 

 hope to aid in their settlement in the same peaceful and honourable 

 way, thus securing to our country the great blessings of peace and 

 mutual good offices with all nations of the ^oxXAP— Letter to Alfred 

 H. Love. 



SIR CHARLES DILKE, BART., M.P. 



(Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), i88z. 

 " Not only are our relations with all Powers friendly, but 

 Arbitrations are beginning to be decided by those friendly Powers 

 in our favour, which is a pleasing change. In the 1820's there was 

 only one case in which a dispute between the United Kingdom and 

 a Foreign Power was referred to Arbitration ; in the 1830's one ; in 

 the 1840's one; in the iSso's one; in the i86o's one; but in the 

 1870's no less than seven disputes were thus referred. The vast 

 majority of Arbitrations have been decided against Great Britain. 

 Now it is important in its bearing on the chances of future peace 

 that we should not obtain the impression that Arbitration decisions 



