Negotiations relative to the conclusion of treaties for the advancement of general peace ¹

^1. For the statement of the American Peace Plan and documents showing the progress previously made with it, see Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 8–12; 1914, pp. 171, 331, 1068. As additions to the list, given in the first telegram below, of countries with which treaties were signed before the outbreak of the war, are to be noted: Norway, June 24 ( ibid., 1914, p. 971); Peru, July 14 ( ibid., 1915, p. 1279); Uruguay, July 20 ( ibid., p. 1307); Brazil and Chile, July 24 ( ibid., 1916, pp. 43, 46). For papers on the related subject of preparations for a third Hague Peace Conference, see ibid., 1914, pp. 4, 10.