The suggestion has again been made in the American Press
that a fresh arbitration treaty with Great Britain on the lines of the unfortunate Hay-Pauncefote treaty which was killed by the Senate during Mr. Taft's pre- sidency might be negotiated. The two countries would agree to settle all controversies without exception by judicial or arbitral process. If the two great English- speaking nations were to " out-law war " by signing an arbitration treaty they would have demonstrated to the world what international relationships will, we hope, be in the future. That the American Senate would again reject such a treaty is deemed hardly possible by well- informed opinion. Apart from such anti-British publicists as Mr. John Devoy, of the Gaelic-American, who in a recent issue describes how he and other hundred per cent. Americans of Irish birth defeated the proposed arbitration treaty, American opinion as a whole would probably approve of it.
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