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(1892) Author: Klas Pontus Arnoldson With: Brooke Foss Westcott
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to prepare for the participation of Italians in
the Peace Congress at Paris in the summer of
1889.

The Congresses of 1889 formed part of the
great commemoration of the Revolution; that
meeting of international fraternity which, in
the words of President Carnot in his opening
speech, “shall hasten the time when the
resources of the nations, and the labour of
mankind, shall be dedicated only to the works of
peace.”

One of these gatherings, the Universal Peace
Congress, June 23–27, which was composed of
delegates from the peace societies of Europe
and America, had, amongst other vocations,
to express itself on certain general principles
for carrying forward the idea of arbitration.
It specially maintained and emphasized that
the principle of arbitration ought to form a
part of fundamental law in the constitution of
every State.[1] Before the meeting closed, it


[1] This principle is likely to be realized by the bill of the
constitution of the Brazilian Republic, sanctioned by thе
executive of the new free State, which proclaims that the
Government may not begin a war without having first
appealed to arbitration.

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