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...wonder then that the press blazed away with the sensational news of her naval demands. It did not understand the French and their ways, while the French did not understand the press and its possibilities. Mr. Abbott's article restores our previous optimism. France is not insincere and she does not intend to block progress. She has made an unfortunate mistake by misunderstanding the environment that has done much to accomplish things in Washington; let us not make an even more unfortunate mistake by misunderstanding France and her motives...
...Abbott's article on the Conference published in this issue of the CRIMSON is one of the most interesting of the series. When the press suddenly announced last week that, after the naval ratio of the Big Three had been finally settled satisfactorily, France had turned the whole business topsy-turvy by asking for an increased navy, the news came as somewhat of a shock. All progress at Washington seemed to be in a fair way of being checked. The feeling of optimism that had spread over the country gave way to one of blank amazement. What did the French...
...Abbott points out, their doubts and fears are not warranted. What France did was the result of a mental habit entirely different from that of the other nations at the Conference. Where they have been only too glad to reach public opinion through the newspapers, she has given the press correspondents no idea of her true position. Where they have eagerly put their problems before the readers of the country, she, because her newspapers are different, thought her "case could wait until it was presented by diplomats to diplomats." The extraordinary role that the public has played in the proceedings...
...performance; yet it looks as if the Senate's ability to filibuster were in no way diminished by a short vacation. The Four Power Treaty, simple, short and adequately expressed, is terrifying some gentlemen in Washington. What is this Treaty that raises such specters? To quote from Mr. Abbott's article printed yesterday in the CRIMSON, "By this treaty no new rights are created, and no rights are acknowledged which have not been acknowledged already. . . . It commits no nation under any condition to a policy of resistance." It is obviously a substitution for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The country will...
...dinner itself will start at about 7 o'clock. Professor F. W. Taussig '79, President of the Chapter, will preside, and the speakers will include President Lowell, Mr. John F. Moors '83, Professor W. C. Abbott, Professor H. H. Burbank, and Mr. D. A. Ellis '94, a well-known member of the Boston School Committee...