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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. 2. General Schcnck to Lord Grant Ule. Legation Of United States, London, February 5, 1872. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the evening of the 3d instant, o your note of that date, 'in which, after stating that Her Majesty's Government Lave had under their consideration the Case presented on behalf of the United States to the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva, you proceed to say that you will not allude to several portions of that Case, which are of comparatively smaller importance, but that Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that it will be in accordance with their desire that no obstacle should be interposed to the prosecution of the arbitration, and that it will be more frank and friendly toward the Government of the United States to state at once their views respecting certain claims which you describe as of an enormous and indefinite amount, which appear to have been put forward as matters to be referred to arbitration. You then go on to state that Her Majesty's Government hold that it is not within the province of the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva to decide upon the claims for indirect losses and injuries put forward in the case of the United States, 'including the loss in the transfer of the American commercial marine to the British flag, the enhanced payment of insurance, and the prolongation of the war, and the addition of a large sum to the cost of the Avar and suppression of the rebellion. Eeferring, then, to the importance which Her Majesty's Government attach to the prosecution of the arbitration, you proceed to speak of the objects which Her Majesty's Government had in view in that arbitration. The primary object, you say, was the firm establishment of amicable relations between two countries which have so many and such ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217411615 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217411614 |
| Weight | 0.29 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 80 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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