The "'Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration "'was founded in 1895 to support the cause of international arbitration, arbitration treaties, and an international court, and to generate public support on behalf of the cause.
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He provided leadership in saving Argentina's arbitration treaty with Italy, which almost foundered in 1907-1908, and eventually became the unofficial adviser to both the legislature and the foreign office on the analysis and implications of proposed foreign treaties.
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In August, a bill authorizing the Argentine Navy to acquire three dreadnoughts was passed by the Senate after they approved an arbitration treaty and the government made a last-ditch offer to purchase one of the two Brazilian dreadnoughts currently being constructed.
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After the Bering Sea Arbitration, Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Sparrow David Thompson said of Lord Salisbury's acceptance of the Arbitration Treaty that it was " one of the worst acts of what I regard as a very stupid and worthless life ".
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Venezuela cited the alleged Russia-UK deal noted above as an offence of collusion, as well as several improprieties and vices in the ruling, especially " Ultra Vires ", due to the fact that the referees drew the border between British Guiana, Brazil and Suriname, and also decreed freedom of navigation in the Barima rivers, exceeding the scope of powers granted by the arbitration treaty, in 1897.
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On 2 October, the cabinet agreed on the delegation guidelines : change of the French-British draft discussed at the London expert meeting to make clear that the guarantee of the western border would only mean a renunciation of offensive war and not a waiver of claims to German territory ( i . e . Alsace-Lorraine and Eupen-Malmedy ); refusal of a French guarantee of the eastern arbitration treaties; interpretation of Art . 16 in a way that took account of German reservations; changes to military rule in the Rhineland and a reduction in the duration of the occupation of the second and third zone of the Rhineland.
