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Since the League road is thus proving so infinitely long, why not take the Soviet short cut? Solemnly Comrade Litvinov concluded: "The Soviet Government declares it is ready to abolish all military forces in accordance with its draft convention as soon as a similar decision is passed and simultaneously carried out by other States. The Soviet Government asks the other Governments represented here if they also are ready...
...hero, Baron Cushendun, rose and towered six feet six over the wide horse shoe table in the League Glass Room. With biting innuendo and battering logic for more than an hour he attacked the Soviet draft convention article by article, and finally in principle...
...look at this draft convention. From the first word to the last there is no mention or allusion to the League of Nations. . . . [This shows a] fixed purpose of boycotting the League and all its works. . . . Article 63 [of the Soviet draft convention] declares that five copies should be deposited in some capital of some country of five continents. This shows imagination, but it is unnecessary to insult the League in this way and has no bearing on general disarmament. Copies can be sent to Geneva as well as to Timbuctoo...
...roundly advised that the Commission waste no more time upon it. Meanwhile the German and Turkish representatives had taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet draft convention again into storage by delaying any further consideration which may be accorded it to a future session...
Farm Relief. Even farther postponed, but far more controversial than the Navy program, is the latest reincarnation of the famed, aged McNary-Haugen bill. Senator McNary last fortnight explained, and last week the Committee on Agriculture reported favorably, a draft modified to meet nine of President Coolidge's last objections. The new bill calls for a $250,000,000 revolving fund to be loaned by the Government to marketing associations to aid in selling surplus crops in an "orderly" way. Also, it would establish a Federal Farm Board to administer this fund and it removes all restrictions from...