Great copycats are the Japanese. Last July the U. S. formally denounced its trade treaty with Japan. Last week Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in language he might well have picked up from U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, denounced the Japanese-Netherlands treaty of arbitration and conciliation. The U. S.-Japanese treaty expired six months after denunciation; so will the Japanese-Netherlands treaty.
The reason Japan gave for the abrogation was that The Netherlands treaty provided for the arbitration of some disputes by the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague. This court is affiliated with the League of...
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