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Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...
...conference situation is desperate. It holds the lives of the young men of the world in its hands and public opinion despairs of its deliberations. Yesterday I offered M. Barthou a place on the committee to redraft the disarmament plan. M. Barthou declined. Today I attempted a draft resolution myself. M. Barthou rejects it. Either M. Barthou must submit a program of work or the general commission will be summoned and will be informed that the bureau has failed. This means that the conference closes down...
...this time small, sharp Norman Davis, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large, went bustling from group to group trying to patch the quarrel between M. Barthou and the British. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary with whom M. Barthou came to verbal blows fortnight ago, had gone back to London, leaving at Geneva Captain Anthony Eden, the Empire's young, adroit conciliator and "Traveling Salesman of Peace...
Suddenly the clouds broke and M. Barthou, his beard bright with smiles, gave a dinner which turned out to be a love feast. Haggard old "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was shoved into obscurity, his plan dropped. Agreement was then reached on three points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work...
...Barthou dodged the fact that the original Mussolini plan also allowed a measure of rearmament to Germany...