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...Assemblies. Last week the world of diplomacy grew crosseyed with looking simultaneously towards Geneva and Aix-les-Bains. It was all due to the Protocol.* At Geneva the French were trying to revamp the Protocol before the League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
...Geneva the League opened with a fanfare and a crush which it has never equaled. For the first time there was standing room only and not enough of that in the Press Box. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was showered with bouquets. The Maharajah of Patralia (India) wore a blue turban, pink earrings, gold bracelets, frock coat. Senator Raoul Dandurand‡ of Canada was elected President of the present League Assembly (the 6th) on the first ballot and took up his duties; to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth because he is Canadian, to the delight of France because he is of French...
...Geneva blossomed overnight. Before there had been little knots of industrious secrtaries and attaches. Suddenly one morning Geneva woke up to the opening of the session of the Council of the League of Nations. Foreign ministers were stepping into the city by tens. Ambassadors by scores, and here and there through the mass was a sprinkling of Premiers...
...going to rejoin my wife at Evian-les-Bains. We shall be returning to the U.S shortly but I may return to Geneva for a few days about the time that the Council opens its meeting...
...strongly emphasizing that Liberia was a sovereign and independent republic. It was noted that Angora had designated Rushdi Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister to attend the Councils meeting and do battle for Turkeys side of the Mosul question. It was even noted that William Slocum ot Boston, resident in Geneva, had denied that he was on hand as a personal representative of U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg to attend the Council's meeting. But no particular thought or attention was given to preparing a special reception for M. Quinones de Leon, representative of Spain in the Council and President...