Senator Lodge, the Republican leader in the Senate, presented the
treaty, which he described as " an attempt to remove the causes of war over a great area of the surface of the globe by reliance on the good faith and honest intentions of the nations which sign the treaty." M. Viviani accepted it cordially for France. Mr. Balfour expressed his hearty approval of the new treaty, which made the Japanese affiance unnecessary. As the author of that affiance he affirmed that it had never been meant to touch in the remotest way the interests of America. Great Britain had found herself exposed to misunderstanding whether she upheld or abrogated the alliance, and the best possible solution of the difficulty was the new quadruple agree- ment. Mr. Balfour said that it gave him peculiar satisfaction because he had all his life been a persistent advocate of the most intimate and friendly relations between the two greatest branches of the English-speaking race. Prince Tokugawa said that all Japan would approve of the treaty as a pledge of peace in the Pacific Ocean.
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