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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2017
The founding fifty years ago of a society to promote the establishment of international relations on the basis of law and justice was a step marking the progress that had been made at the beginning of the century in the age-long efforts to find a means of substituting reason for force in the settlement of international controversies. At that time arbitration was generally regarded as the most suitable and acceptable substitute for war. Great Britain and the United States had both heavily contributed to that conviction first by submitting to arbitration under the Jay Treaty of 1794 the numerous misunderstandings that developed in carrying out the provisions of the Peace Treaty of 1783, and then three-quarters of a century later in submitting to arbitration by the Treaty of Washington of 1871 the dangerous Alabama Claims dispute following the American Civil War.
1 John Morley’s Life of Gladstone 393 (New York, 1921).
2 Art. 16 of the Hague Convention of 1899 for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.
3 A Manual of the Public Benefactions of Andrew Carnegie 273–274 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, 1919)Google Scholar.
4 See 7 Moore, International Law Digest 75.
5 Ibid. 78.
6 See Dr. Scott’s own account of this episode during his remarks at the luncheon in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Society, Proceedings, 1931, p. 242.
7 For the history of the organization of the American Society of International Law, written by Dr. Scott, see Proceedings, 1907, pp. 23–38.
8 Dr. Scott’s plan was published in the Proceedings of the Society for 1907, p. 30.
9 For the Society’s activity in this regard see infra, p. 303.
10 The text of the prospectus was printed in the Proceedings of the Society, 1907, pp. 35–37.
10a Proceedings, 1931, p. 246.
11 Proceedings, 1907, pp. 43–44; 1 A.J.I.L. 273 (1907).
12 Published in the Endowment’s Tear Book for 1913–1914, pp. 144–147.
13 Conference of American Teachers of International Law, 1914, pp. 2–3 (published by the Endowment); Proceedings of the Society, 1914, pp. 251–252.
14 Proceedings, 1916, pp. 108–117.
15 See editorial comments in 22 A.J.I.L. 620–629 (1928).
16 Ibid. 629–632.
17 Proceedings of the Society, 1928, pp. 140–141.
18 See the detailed and informative reports rendered annually by the Society’s Committee on State Department Publications, beginning in 1934, printed in the volume of annual Proceedings.
19 Proceedings of the Society, 1907, pp. 43–57.
20 Proceedings, 1914, pp. 336–341.
21 Proceedings, 1928, pp. 141–145.
22 See Department of State press notice, dated Jane 23, 1928, and printed in 22 A.J.I.L. Supp. 109–115 (1928).
23 Proceedings, 1918–1919, pp. 14–15.
24 Mr. Root’s amendments were printed in the Proceedings for 1918–1919, pp. 50–51.
25 Proceedings, 1920, pp. 15, 79.
26 For the reports and correspondence between the Society and the League of Nations, see Special Supplement to the Journal for 1926 (Vol. 20).
27 Proceedings, 1921, pp. 3–5.
