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Excerpt from Treaties for the Advancement of Peace: Between the United States and Other Powers Negotiated by the Honorable William J. Bryan, Secretary of State of the United States
Mr. Bryan's treaties for the advancement of peace, of which thirty were negotiated and signed by him as Secretary of State, twenty nine advised and consented to by the Senate, and twenty actually proclaimed by the President, aim to supplement, not to supplant exist ing agencies by bringing to discussion any and all outstanding differ ences, not adjusted by these or other agencies, in the belief that the immediate and therefore the ultimate danger of war would be averted through an agreement of the parties to refrain from hostilities pending investigation, for which a twelvemonth is allowed, by a careful discus sion before a permanent commission of five members, in which each of the contending countries is represented by a citizen or subject of its own choice, created in advance of the dispute or existing at its out break. Such treaties would facilitate settlement by ascertaining the facts and suggesting the principle of solution, even although the report of the commission Should not bind the parties or decide the controversy.
Let us brie?y consider these different phases of peaceable settlement in order to see the nature and scope of the Bryan plan and its place in the peace movement.
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