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...Geneva met a commission of the League of Nations to draw up rules of procedure for an Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, which is soon to be opened at Paris. Professor Sir Gilbert Murray, in the absence of M. Bergson, ill, was in the chair. Among those present: Senator Henri de Jouvenal (France), Dr. Vernon Kellogg of the National Research Council (U. S.), Prof. Albert Einstein (Germany), Senator Ruffini (Italy), Prof. Gonzague de Reynold (Switzerland), M. Destree (Belgium), Dr. Casares (Spain), Prof. de Halecki (Poland), ex-Premier Buero (Uruguay), Dr. Gastro (Brazil...
...summary of conclusions reached by the League's Commission, which recently reported on the Mosul dispute between Britain and Turkey (TIME, Jan. 5), was given out at Geneva...
Walker D. Hines, onetime Director General of the U. S. railways, now head of a commission which has just completed a survey of navigation conditions on the Rivers Danube and Rhine, arrived in Geneva where he is collaborating with Major Somerwell, U. S. A., on a report soon to be presented...
Certain medical members of the British Parliament returned to London, last week, to murmur about a serum treatment for tuberculosis which they had gone to Geneva to investigate-the invention of one Dr. Henry Spahlinger. On the streets of Geneva, they said, posters were displayed announcing the sale of Dr. Spahlinger's research station if his debts were not paid. Despite this, he has rejected an offer of ?250,000 for his serum from a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm, because he feared the serum would be exploited beyond the means of the poor. The medical M. P.'s reported...
...other delegates were quite as pleased. They had gone to Geneva a hopeful band of enthusiastic idealists. At Geneva, they found it indispensable to pose as disillusioned realists. After Geneva, they were again idealists giving scope to their dream-a warless world. How far they had reconciled idealism with realism was a story told by the convention...