The Briand Proposal and Arbitration

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The “outlawry of war” treaty proposed by Aristide Briand, the French Foreign Minister, on April 6, 1927, has drawn attention to the strides which have been made in international arbitration and conciliation since the war. M. Briand addressed his proposal through the press to the people of the United States on the tenth anniversary of America's entry into the war. He proposed that France and the United States should outlaw war by the conclusion of a perpetual peace pact between the two countries. This procedure has already been adopted by France with some of the smaller powers, but would mark a radical departure in the policy of the United States which has never yet been willing to enter into arbitration treaties which are not ...

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