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...Geneva Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League of Nations, scanned with annoyance an official communication which came to his desk last week from Foreign Minister Tchitcherin...
...many Swiss are anti-Communists." At present the Swiss Government is attempting to patch up its strained relations with the U. S. S. R., and not succeeding very well because M. Tchitcherin prefers to insist that the League go to enormous expense to hold its conferences elsewhere than at Geneva, where its extensive immovable equipment is located...
Secretary Drummond replied vaguely but courteously to M. Tchitcherin, bided the League's time. He despatched invitations to League states and to the U. S., Germany, Turkey, etc., requesting them to send representatives to a League of Nations Passport Conference to be held at Geneva on May 12. He benignly countenanced the formation by four of his U. S. subordinates of "The League of Nations Post of the American Legion, which is to link the greatest peace agency in the world with one of the greatest of fighting-veteran agencies." He helped to make comfortable twelve famed international lawyers...
...immense satisfaction of authorities at Geneva, the United States is likewise giving the League statistics and information pertinent to League investigations, and has, moreover, departed from her quondam policy of answering League communications eight months after their receipt, now answering the with solicitous promptitude. The reason is obvious. After years of uncertainty, the United States is finally determined on isolation. After years of attempted conversion, the League has given the United States up for a bad job and left her to the good graces of that isolation. Being farther apart in fact, the two are closer together in understanding...
...President obligingly made known what was going on. An invitation had been received the week before to have the U. S. represented at a conference of 18 nations at Geneva on Feb. 15. This conference is to fix the place, the date and the matter for consideration, etc., of a later conference which is to deal with disarmament by land...