Arbitration
by WELLS Gabriel
Garden City, N.Y.: Country Life Press, 1925. . 8vo, stiff blue wrappers, paper label on front. "This paper, in abbreviated form, was prepared for, but not presented at, the conference held on March 29th, 1925, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor, for the purpose of discussing Arbitration." An essay on the role of the League of Nations in the arbitration process. "Had there been a league of Nations in 1914, it might not have averted the outbreak of war...but who will contend that the war would have become so widespread and been fought with such utter virulence and protractedness? All the Powers engaged in that insane combat would fain have retraced theirs steps or withdrawn with honor unsullied, but there was no mediating center to call them to reason, bring them together, and set them right..." (Inventory #: 1517)