"This treaty should meet with approval in "America, as crystallises into actual practice those leas for which we have striven.
acts us only favourably, and, 2 arently giving to us just what we have wished, the open door,' should be welcomed here. The treaty is in consonance with international law and is not unique, although there are few modern parallels of it. The United States signed such a treaty with France in Revolutionary days. That did not have for its object. however ation of the trade and ferriters third country. Such treaties are rare!'
The United States was not Surprised.
Although the United States was not-consulted while the treaty was being nego-fiated, yet it is undoubted! y true that Secretary Hay knew what w: deed, Lord Cranborne sai of Commons the other day that the substance of the agreement was communicated
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