Geneva, Feb. 23.
The Arbitration and Security Committee of the League of Nations has abandoned the iden of general arbitration in favour of toral treaties.
"Tt is inexpedient to attempt to Jdraw up in advance a list of measures for preserving international peace," declared Lord Cushenden in submitting the proposal to the Committee, He contended that the League Covenant created a measure of security, Its articles, generally, were capable of preventing war, and members of the League could more easily exert the common will to peace within the france-work of the Covenant, because the instrament did not provide for a rigid code of procedure for the settlement of an international crisis.
The British delegate advocated regional treaties for States who did not find adequate security within the Covenant.
Lord Cashenden intimated that the British Empire could not accept arbitration without reservations, but he was ready to submit justic~ lable cases to arbitration, and sig: gested the-creation of a commission of conciliation, on the Canadian and American model, for the settlement political questions.—Reuter.
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