Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-03
Present Arbitration Pact
Expires February ~;
First Step Taken.
NEW ONE MODEL.
A New FrancO-American
Agreement To Be Used
With All Countries.

WASHINGTON Jan. 2 tPl-Amer-
ican proposals in connection with the
projected new peace treaty with
France to take the place of the Root
arbitration pact which expires Feb
Iruary 81 have been placed before
the French government in alternative
form.
Whether the result of the conversa-
tionS and exchanges of memoranda
will result in single treaty or in
separate pactS supplementary to each
other depends on French study OF
the American suggestions.
In view of the fact that these
suggestions were put in definite form
and transmitted through the French
embassy after Secretary Kellogg had
discussed the situation with the entire
membership of the senate foreign
relations committee, it is assumed
by officials here that the proposals
have a considerable degree OF senate
sanction.
+ The conversations between Secre-
tary kellogg and Ambassador Claudel
are now known to have led to two
separate proposals as to ways and
means of Tightening diplomatic ma
chinery for preserving peace. They
also have made it clear that the
Washington government is planning
to follow up conclusion OF the new
peace treaty or treaties with France
by making its arbitration agreements
with other countries on the model
OF, the new Franco-American commit
mentS as other Root treaties expire.
In the event that the original
BRAND proposal for a treaty with
the United States to outlaw war is
followed closely the washington at
titude is that muIti-lateral coven-
ant to be signed ultimately by other
than the two powers might be framed
It would be OF general character
and amount to joint declaration
by the signatory powers against war.
In view of constitutional limitations
in this country such as the reserva-
ton to congress alone OF war making,
powers, no way appears open to
include in a treaty of this character
definite commitments not to resort
to war under any circumstance.
That \ circumstance includes the
Washington viewpoint to favor re-
vision and strengthening of the Root
treaty so as to include a policy
declaration against war in the pre-
amble. The succeeding articles OF
the treaty would re-enact the COM
TnittmentS to submit to arbitration at
the Hague, disputes OF every char
acter which could not otherwise be
settled and which did, not involve:
l. Matters of a purely internal and
domestic character.
2. Questions which involve the in
terests of a third power
8. Questions growing out of the
maintenance by the United States
of the Monroe doctrine.
| To supplement and further strength
en- and at the same time make even
more elastic and workable the original
Root arbitration treaty, the American
plan includes new element in the
form of reference to possible con-
ciliation of disputes or attempted
conciliation, as a preliminary step to
formal arbitration. In effect, this
proposal would interlock with the
arbitration treaty although not by
specific reference, the existing Bryan
conciliation treaty with France. The
proposal is based on generally ac-
cepted views that in many cases of
international dispute where the ques-
ton is not OF purely juridical
character, examination by joint
commission OF a fact finding nature
frequently would make arbitration
unnecessary.
LONDON, Jan. iP)-The progress
of negotiations for Franco American
pact outlawing war is being watched
| in official circles here with great
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