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Essays and addresses

They disagreed a disagreement which might quite naturally arise from national feeling and prejudice: it was left to a foreigner a foreigner in such high position that no thought of corruption or dishonesty could arise.

His award was claimed by the United States as not having been made on the proper basis Britain, in view of this claim, instead of insisting on the award (as possibly, technically she might), agreed to disregard it.

I have thought that her conduct on this occasion may well be likened to that of the United States a few years ago.

Britain claimed that the United States had bound -itself not to give any advantage to its own ships in the Panama Canal; the United States took another view of the treaty, and made regulations by which certain ships of the United States had an advantage.

But on consideration of the View taken by Britain of the treaty, it reversed its action and without assenting to the validity of the British contention, acceded to it because the other party to the treaty thought that was what the treaty meant; nor was the plea of change of circumstances, earnestly pressed as it was, even listened to.