The Executive Committee of the Association for International Conciliation wish to arouse the interest of the American people in the progress of the movement for promoting international peace and relations of comity and good fellowship between nations. To this end they print and circulate documents giving information as to the progress of these movements, in order that individual citizens, the newspaper press, and organizations of various kinds may have readily available accurate information on these subjects. For the information of those who are not familiar with the work of the Association for International Conciliation, a list of its publications is subjoined. 1. Program of the Association, by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant. April, 1907. 2. Results of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, by Andrew Carnegie. April, 1907. 4. 3. A League of Peace, by Andrew Carnegie. November, 1907. The Results of the Second Hague Conference, by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant and Hon. David J. Hill. January, 1908. The Work of the Second Hague Conference, by James Brown January, 1908. 5. Scott. 6. Possibilities of Intellectual Co-operation Between North and South America, by L. S. Rowe. April, 1908. 7. America and Japan, by George Trumbull Ladd. June, 1908. 8. The Sanction of International Law, by Elihu Root. July, 1908. The United States and France, by Barrett Wendell. August, 9. 1908. IO. The Approach of the Two Americas, by Joaquim Nabuco. September, 1908. II. 1908. The United States and Canada, by J. S. Willison. October, 12. The Policy of the United States and Japan in the Far East. 13. European Sobriety in the Presence of the Balkan Crisis, by Charles Austin Beard. December, 1908. 14. The Logic of International Co-operation, by F. W. Hirst. January, 1909, 15. American Ignorance of Oriental Languages, by J. H. De Forest. February, 1909. 16. America and the New Diplomacy, by James Brown Scott, March, 1909. Up to the limit of the editions printed, any one of the above documents, or the copies of this Monthly Bulletin, will be sent postpaid upon receipt of a request addressed to the Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation, Post Office Sub-Station 84, New York, N. Y. AMERICA AND THE NEW DIPLOMACY The discovery of America opened up a new world; the independence of the United States a new diplomacy. The discovery of America opened up a world to the broken and depressed of Europe and gave them an opportunity to begin life anew in a world in which there were no traditions of the past, no limitations to the future and which they might fashion according to their will. From all lands they came, from Protestant and Catholic communities, from countries speaking various and discordant languages, the man of unconquerable mind and the broken in spirit, the rich and the poor, the criminal and the outcast. Freed from the restraint of the Old World they bred a race of Freemen. By the sweat of their brow they prospered, and unwilling to surrender the proceeds of their industry and devotion or to yield to the Old World what they had acquired in the New, they maintained in war what they had acquired in peace. United by oppression or fear of oppression, they sank their differences of race, of religion, of language and tradition, founded a Republic and transmitted it to their offspring. Cast in the melting pot, they emerged from the crucible a Union, a Nation, which has stood the test of a Civil War at home and commands because it deserves respect abroad. The experience of the |