Excerpt from Address of Hon. Philander C. Knox Before the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes: Cincinnati, Ohio, November 8, 1911 The unprecedented openness of the nego tiations and the frankness with which the whole world was taken into the confidence of the Governments directly concerned in what they conceived to be a matter of worid wide interest and importance is readily seen by comparing the terms of thetentative draft as published in May with the treaties as signed in August, from which it will appearthat no important differences can be found. The general discussion and approval through out the world of the proposed plan and its details which foiiowed their publication con tained no intimation of the Opposition to the ratification of these treaties for the reasons now urged by the majority of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.