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Arbitration comes before war, they insisted, to avert its horrors; not after war, to afford the defeated party a chance yet to escape its consequences.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Arbitration comes before war, they insisted, to avert its horrors; not after war, to afford the defeated party a chance…”
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Reid emphasizes the importance of arbitration as a means to prevent war rather than as a post-war remedy.
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