Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Regarding the Pacific and Far Eastern questions on the agenda of the Conference, the delegates accepted the four principles concerning China which I quoted last week, and which constitute what may be called the Eight-Power Agreement. The adoption of these principles, was, however, only a beginning. The delegates in committee at once set to work to apply those principles to the specific conditions in China which are the cause of international friction. These conditions they have agreed to consider in the order in which they are named in the agenda. First in order are the conditions affecting China...
...general pacification. These people are expecting, from the Conference more than it is intended to achieve and more than it is capable of achieving. But their expectations are not under the circumstances wholly unreasonable. The American government has invited misinterpretation. In planning the Conference it introduced into the agenda general questions which raised the subject of land disarmament and issued invitations to Powers which are only secondarily in- terested in the future of China and in naval disarmament. Two of the former Allied and Associated Powers, France and Italy, are occupied almost exclusively with European disorder and will subordinate their...