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...Greco-Turkish dispute over the Patriarchate (TIME, Feb. 9, TURKEY) came up for consideration. The matter was referred for settlement...
Foreign Relations. "We cannot permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases . . . It will be well not to be too much disturbed by the thought of either isolation or entanglement of pacifists and militarists. . . . We have long advocated the peaceful settlement of disputes by methods of arbitration and have negotiated many treaties to secure that result. The same considerations should lead to our adherence to the Permanent Court of International Justice . . . . Some of the best thought of mankind has long been seeking for a formula for permanent peace. . . . But all these plans and preparations, these treaties...
...there is another element more important than all, without which there cannot be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. . . . Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant. . . . We have made great contributions to the settlement of contentious differences in both Europe and Asia. But". . . we can only help those who help themselves...
...Bakeless in his prize essay on the economic causes of war as a clear example of the place of economic factors in stirring up armed conflict. The operations between Chili and Peru which terminated with the Treaty of Ancon in 1883 no doubt support his main thesis; but the settlement of the present dispute by the United States reveals its inadequacy. Economic rivalry may be a source of bitterness and quarrel; but that without more ado war will inevitably result from such rivalry is not true...
...England it was a belligerent attitude that sought expression in economic and political rivalry, as much as it was economic rivalry seeking solution in warfare. It is the hope of the future that these states of mind can be resolved through the legal channels of arbitration and judicial settlement, rather than through the extra-legal methods of warfare. The State Department's work on the Tacna-Arica dispute lends one more grain of plausibility to that hope...