ABSTRACT
In Parliament on 11th July, 1927, the Labour Party initiated a debate on foreign affairs and again pressed the Government on the subject of arbitration. The attitude of the United States towards the League makes it necessary that an Anglo-American arbitration treaty should have no relation to the League or to the Permanent Court. The entry of Russia into the League is, perhaps, less remote than that of the United States, and such an event would make it easier to bring Russia within a general scheme of arbitration treaties. As regards arbitration, one of the difficulties, both for legal and non-legal disputes, is Russian suspicion of capitalist judges and arbitrators. International relations are complicated and in many directions only a concerted advance is possible. But a wide extension of arbitration is a step which can be taken both by itself and, if necessary, by a few States acting alone.
