As this Government has on frequent occasions 
      made it clear, the United States, in advocating the maintenance 
      of international law and order, believes in the promotion of 
      world peace through the friendly solution by peaceful negotiation 
      between nations of controversies which may arise between them, 
      as well as in the promotion of peace through the finding of means 
      for economic ap- peasement. Without attempting to pass upon the 
      political tax features of the accord recently reached between 
      Great Britain and Italy, this Government has seen the conclusion 
      of the agreement with sympathetic interest.