Appendix B: Platform of The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of The Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1907

The Thirteenth Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration recognizes with profound gratitude the development of those forces which are making for international peace through international justice. The promotion of intercourse, friendship and amity among the nations, the organization of international bodies in commerce, science and philanthropy, the demand for higher standards of international morality are but preludes to greater harmony and unity among the peoples of the world.

We mention with satisfaction among the events of the last twelve months the holding of the Pan-American Congress; the visit of Secretary Root to the South American Republics; the organization in the United States of a branch of society for international conciliation; the international conference for the revision of the Geneva Convention of 1864; the holding at Washington of the first annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, organized in 1905 at the Mohonk Conference, and the publication of its organ, the American Journal of International Law; the formation of the Japan Society for the cultivation of friendly relations between Japan and the United States; the increasing disposition of nations to assist each other in time of famine and disaster; and the holding in New York of a National Arbitration and Peace Congress of far-reaching influence.