The Cambridge modern history. Vol. XII, The latest age / planned by the late Lord Acton ; edited by A.W. Ward, G.W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes.

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1910
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    the protocols. 545 pp. [French text only. The annexes, which form the greater part of the volume, from p. 87 to the end, consist of reports and documents made or transmitted by the standing Committees to the Conference in plenary meeting. Annexe 66, p. 529, gives a list of arbitration treaties and treaties containing arbitration clauses to which Italy has become a party since 1899 ; most but not all of them provide for reference to the Ha^ue tribunal.] A note of the final reservations and abstentions from signature of particular Powers appeared in the Times and other public prints of July 2, 1908. Renault, L. La conference de La Haye en 1907. In Seances et Travaux de l’Academie des sciences morales et politiques. Paris. 1908. (P. 438.) L’oeuvre de la Haye, 1899 et 1907. Conference faite a l’Ecole libre des sciences politiques le 5 juin 1908. In Annales des sciences politiques, 15 July 1908. Paris. Scott, J. B. The Hague Peace Conference of 1899 and 1907. Baltimore. 1909. 2 vols. [Contains American documents not published in Europe.] Westlake, J. The Hague Conference. In Quarterly Review for Jan. 1908 (No. 414). (See also list of works at head of article.) The European Concert. Crete, 1897-9. For full accounts see the Parliamentary Papers of those years. [It would be useless to give specific references here, as they are more readily found by means of the index in any library where the papers are accessible.] III. PERMANENT ARBITRATION TREATIES CONCLUDED BY GREAT BRITAIN WITH FOREIGN POWERS. Austria-Hungary : January 11, 1905. Colombia : December 30, 1908. Denmark : October 25, 1905. France: October 14, 1903. (Prolonged by Exchange of Notes of October 14, 1908. ) Germany: July 12, 1904. (Renewed for one year July 1909; prolonged by exchange of Notes of Dec. 7, 1909. As to the latest exchange of notes with Germany, see Treaty Series, no. 36 (1909), Cd. 4968.) Italy: February 1, 1904. (Prolonged by Exchange of Notes of January 4, 1909.) Netherlands : February 15, 1905. Norway : See Sweden and Norway. Portugal: November 16, 1904. Spain: February 27, 1904. (Prolonged by Exchange of Notes of January 11, 1909. ) Sweden and Norway : August 11, 1904. Switzerland : November 16, 1904. United States : April 4, 1908. (All these agreements were concluded for a period of five years in the first instance. The Treaty with the United States contains a special provision as to the consent of the Senate of the United States and of any self-governing Dominion of the British Empire whose interests may be affected.) The foregoing particulars were prepared, by the courtesy of the Foreign Office, before the publication of a parliamentary paper. Miscellaneous, no. 9 (1909), Cd. 4870, in which they may now be verified.