President. the consequences to Germany in regarding a solemn treaty as a "scrap of paper" have not been such as to encourage a repetition of this practice by any nation at any time in the future. But it is said by the Senator from Missouri that we have now treaties of peace and amity with these same powers under which this same obligatioi now exists. Granted. but the Senator forgets that those treaties may be lawfully terminated. usually upon one years notice. while the pending treaty can not be terminated within 10 years. This distinction becomes important when we consider the questions still at issue between the United States and Japan covering Japanese immigration which could not properly come before the Washington conference. So. Mr.
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