Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration 1901 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The chairman I wish to confess to the next speaker, and ask his absolution. Some years ago, at one of these conferences, the Rev. Dr. Hale, instead of speaking upon what seemed to us to be the important and pressing fact of the pending treaty between this country and Great Britain, with his customary insight and vigor stood for a permanent tribunal. He hammered it into our heads then, and he has finally hammered it into the heads of the nations [applause] he said at the time that he was a twentieth century man, and we believed it.

Some of us lawyers said: Of course these arbitrations will ulti mately lead to a permanent tribunal but that is a thing of the future, and so far in the twentieth century that we had better give our atten tion to the practical measure before us. Dr. Hale was like Balaam standing upon the heights overlooking Israel; he saw the whole field, we didn't. Therefore it gives me pleasure to call upon him as a prince of statesmen and of international lawyers.

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