Yale has chosen the negative of the question submitted by the University Debating Club for the Harvard-Yale debate to be held on March 28. The question is as follows:
"The following facts being presupposed:
1. The existence of money claims by a European government against a South American State:
2. Such claims submitted by consent of both parties to the Hague Tribunal for arbitration:
3. An award by said Tribunal in favor of the European government:
4. The time and amount of payment fixed by the award:
5. Default of payment according to terms of the award:
6. A system of free trade existing in the debtor state:
Resolved. That the United States should permit the European government to seize and hold permanently territory of the debtor state not exceeding in value the amount of the award."
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