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Excerpt from International Arbitration: An Address Delivered at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Held at Washington, April 29, 1911 United States has said, we must be prepared to take certain risks and to make some sacrifice of national pride. When an agreement of that kind, so sweep ing as it is. Is proposed to us, we shall be delighted to have such a proposal. But I should feel that it was something so momentous and so far-reaching in its possible consequence that it would require, not only the signature of both governments, but the deliberate and decided sanction of Parliament, and that, I believe, would be obtained. It is interesting to note that Sir Edward Grey proposed a departure from the usual constitutional practice in his state ment that he would submit a new treaty to Parliament. In so doing, he has invested the t. Now under negotiation with an importance which gives it a different status from that of the ordinary international compact. He rightfully feels that such treaties are compacts between peoples, and as such should have the popular sanction, for, when all is said and done, the burden of expenditure and the toil of blood caused by war must, in the last resort, be levied on the masses of the people. If the hope expressed by Sir Edward Grey ever finds its fulfill ment, we shall indeed feel we are at the summit of the hill and may even look down upon the possibilities of fratricidal strife as only a nightmare of the dreadful past; but though we may fairly hope that we are now on the eve of a treaty which will open a new epoch in the history of mankind, this position of high expectancy has been reached only by gradual steps and not a few setbacks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.