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Dollars v. Rifles. As adopted last week the Draft Convention lays down as its broadest proposal that "each of the High Contracting Parties agrees to limit and as far as possible to reduce its total annual expenditures on land, naval, and air forces...
...most important since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-20. Conceivably Ambassador Gibson will lead the U. S. Delegation in 1932. Certainly he may expect to be a delegate. Last week as the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission ended four years of intermittent sessions at Geneva, having completed a draft program for the World Conference, Ambassador Gibson uttered what amounted to a plea that in 1932 the World will not again expect too much...
Stabilization the Goal. "I hope that in separating at the conclusion of our labors we shall not yield to the temptation to indulge in mutual congratulation . . ." said Hoover Spokesman Gibson. "We have now completed a draft convention which, after study by the governments, will go forward to the general conference. I should not be frank if I did not say that this draft falls far short of our hopes and expectations...
Mountaineers With Hairy Ears. The Draft Convention adopted in Geneva last week was whipped into final shape this autumn (TIME, Nov. 17) after one of the longest diplomatic haggling matches of the 20th Century...
...Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor Act). He had not fought for strikes and boycotts and against company unions. Hence he would be acceptable to Business...