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1 Heinrich Lammasch & Jackson H. Ralston, The Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty 3 (1911)

handle is hein.hoil/aamat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION TREATY INTRODUCTION No publicist is better known than Dr. Lammasch in connection with the recent progress of arbitration ; no member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration created by the Hague Conferences has had greater experience than he in the actual adjustment of international controversies which have been submitted to the Permanent Court ; and no European publicist has a deeper knowledge of the history of arbitration, the progress made and the progress possible through the negotiation of treaties of arbitration. Dr. Heinrich Lammasch, author of the present article on the pending treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States, has been professor of international and criminal law at the University of Vienna since 1889; he was technical delegate of Austria-Hungary at the First and Second Hague Conferences, held respectively in 1899 and 1907, in which capacity he took special interest in the creation of the so-called Permanent Court of Arbitration, in questions, pertaining to the negotiation of general treaties of arbitration, and in the necessity of creating a truly permanent court of arbitration as proposed by the American delegation to the Second Conference. Dr. Lammasch has had the good fortune to sit in the Court which he helped to create, both as arbiter and president. In the controversy between Germany, Great Britain and Italy against Venezuela regarding preferential treatment in the payment of their claims, Dr. Lammasch was a member of the special tribunal which decided the question in 1904; in the controversy between France and Great Britain, concerning the Mascat Dhows, Dr. Lammasch was president of the special tribunal; in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration of 1910, Dr. Lammasch was president of the special tribunal; and in the still more recent controversy between the United States and Venezuela, concerning the Orinoco Steamship Com- pany, decided in October, 1910, Dr. Lammasch was likewise president of the special tribunal. It is therefore a source of inspiration to the advocates of arbitration that a man of Dr. Lammasch's theoretical and practical training and experience should approve the proposed treaty between Great Britain and the United States, and that he has written this article for the Oester- reichische Rundschau (October 2, 1911) explaining, within the compass of a few pages, the interest which the United States and Great Britain have taken in arbitration and the influence which the former country has exer- cised both in the matter of arbitration and in the peace movement itself. Dr. Lammasch carefully and properly avoids discussion of the differ- ences of opinion which have arisen in the matter of the ratification of the treaty, contenting himself with expressing the hope that these differences may be composed. It is not too much to say that the hope of Dr. Lammasch is the hope of the friends of arbitration and the peaceful settlement of international disputes, not only in the United States but in Europe as well; for the failure to secure adequate treaties of arbitration will not merely disappoint believers in the peaceful settlement of inter- national disputes but will retard the movement in their favor which has made such enormous strides since the first modern treaty of arbitration was concluded in 1894 between Great Britain and the United States.