§ 3. Mr. JOHNasked whether treaties identical with the Peace Commission Treaty recently arranged between the United States and Great Britain, purporting to cover the entire range of possible disputation, including the difficult field of I national honour, have also been arranged between the United States and twenty-eight other countries, including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile; and whether it is the settled decision of the British Government that to enter into such arrangements with any country other than the United States of America is either unnecessary or undesirable?
§ Mr. ACLANDThe United States have signed Peace Commission Treaties with a number of other Powers besides Great Britain, including those specially mentioned by the hon. Member. The terms of the treaties are not identical in every case, but the main principles of the treaties—that investigation shall be resorted to in all cases where the ordinary resources of diplomacy fail, and that there shall be no appeal to force until the investigation is completed—are maintained in each treaty. As regards the second part of the question, His Majesty's Government have not yet decided to enter into a similar treaty with any other Power.