Diplomatic memoirs . ght to bear to induce the Sen-ate to reject the treaty, I give extracts from letters which Ireceived from Honorable F. W. Holls, a member of the Amer-ican delegation to the first Hague Peace Conference and aprominent advocate of arbitration. Under date of February9, he wrote me: May I ask you kindly to send me two orthree copies of the reprint of your letter to the Post in be-half of the pending Alaska Treaty ? I am so curious to seejust what can possibly be said in favor of that — to my mind— exceedingly dangerous and unwise agreement that I shallstudy your argument with
Diplomatic memoirs . ght to bear to induce the Sen-ate to reject the treaty, I give extracts from letters which Ireceived from Honorable F. W. Holls, a member of the Amer-ican delegation to the first Hague Peace Conference and aprominent advocate of arbitration. Under date of February9, he wrote me: May I ask you kindly to send me two orthree copies of the reprint of your letter to the Post in be-half of the pending Alaska Treaty ? I am so curious to seejust what can possibly be said in favor of that — to my mind— exceedingly dangerous and unwise agreement that I shallstudy your argument with great care and an entire willing-ness to be convinced. Neither my printed communication nor the letter I wrotein reply convinced Mr. Holls. In the course of a long letter,he said: One of the most important and influential membersof the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs stated to meemphatically that it was an arbitration treaty in which werisked by an adverse decision the loss of territory, the title [Facsimile]. -^M A ^iff J,
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