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 2358 ARBITRATION TREATY-ETHIOPIA. JANUARY 26, 1929. Trea:ty oj Arbitration. Contracting Powers. The President of the United States of America and His Majesty, King Tafari, Heir Apparent to the Throne and Regent Plenipotentiary of the Empire of Ethiopia, on behalf of Her Imperial Majesty, Zeoditu, Empress of Ethiopia, and of himself, Purpose declared. Determined to prevent so far as in their power lies any interruption in the peaceful relations now happily existing between the two nations; DeSIrOUS of reaffirming_ their adherence to the policy of submitting to impartial decision all justiciable controversies that may arise between them; and Eager by their example not only to demonstrate their condemna- tion of war as an instrument of national policy in their mutual rela- tions, but also to hasten the time when the perfection of international arrangements for the pacific settlement of international disputes shall have eliminated forever the possibility of war among any of the Powers of the world;