Moreover, the spectacle of two powerful nations choosing the way of peaceful arbitration to settle an angry dispute seemed a happy, if illusory, omen of a modern method for avoiding the arbitrament of war.

此外，两个强国选择和平仲裁的方式来解决激烈的争端的景象似乎是一种幸福的预兆，即使是虚幻的，也是一种避免战争仲裁的现代方法的预兆。