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The New Diplomatic Method THE importance of the American Ambassador's speech at the annual dinner of the London District of the Institute of Journalists last Saturday should not be overlooked. It seems to have been. lost in the fog of other political matters. General Dawes gave his audience nothing less than a scientific exposition and a running justification of the new method of diplomatic negotiation which he said had emerged from an evolutionary process since the War. In his opinion the rapid progress of the Anglo-American Naval discussions proved the effectiveness of the new method. They had a broadness of basis which would have been impossible before the War. They had begun on the assumption that the final arbiter of the decisions of the forthcoming Naval Con- ference must be public sentiment—not only in Great Britain and the United States but everywhere.
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