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Russia, Turkey, Spain, " Greece, Brazil, Chile, Holland and some other countries, who are not parties to the Washington Naval treaties, were invited to a conference which will be held at Geneva under the aegis of the League...
...noted statesmen who are on occasion to be found in Geneva, none is personally more impressive than strongly-built, white-haired Fridtjof Nansen, Norway's all-round scientist, author, explorer, public servant...
...British Government had practically decided to depose King Fuad and replace him with ex-Khedive Abbas Hilmy, who was deposed in 1914 owing to his penchant for the Central Powers. Further investigation of the source of the news revealed the fact that the deposed Khedive, now living in Geneva, Switzerland, had invented it and himself sent it to an Italian press agency...
...Alley has had interviews and discussions with many prominent men abroad; in Vienna with the Austrian ministers: at the Hague with Judge John Bassett Moore. American delegate on the Permanent Court of International Justice: in Geneva with the world's diplomats concerning the Greece-Italian controversy over Corfa. His experience is broad and varied, and he is said to be a pungent and aggressive speaker...
...young Australian Premier, twice wounded in the War, is the political hero of the Antipodes. Although a Cambridge graduate, he owned a dry goods firm and belonged to the Labor Party. The War came. He founded the Nationalist Party, fought with the Royal Fusiliers, went to Geneva, startled the League of Nations by a brilliant plea for disarmament, returned to Australia, succeeded (when ex-Premier Hughes had failed) in effecting a coalition against the Labor Party, became Premier, remained young...