Washington, Jan. 3.
The State Department has published the text of a formal invita tion to France to join the United States in proposing to all the principal world Powers a comprehensive Treaty containing a declaration renouncing war as, an instrument-of national policy.
The French Government is studying the U.S. Memorandum regarding now arbitration treaty between France and America to replagg the Elihu Root Treaty, which expires next February.
It is suggested that the preamble to the new Treaty should declare a policy against war, while the docu ment itself should' provide that all disputes "except domestic, or affecting a third Power, or arising from the Monroe Doctrine," shall be submitted to the Hague Court of Arbitration, The proposals are regarded as a model for arbitration treaties with other nations including Great Britain where, it is learned in London, they will undoubtedly receive favourable consideration—Reuter,
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