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Another important negative at Buenos Aires was the omission of the U. S. last week to join in otherwise unanimous approval by the Americas of linking up the principal American and other peace treaties (such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact) with the League of Nations. Chilean Delegate Felix Nieto Del Rio put Messrs. Hull & Welles on a spot by declaring the U. S. had "abstained." They got off by insisting the U. S. had "withheld." In any case the U. S. is not having any League of Nations in its Good Neighborhood this week, and Geneva can smoke that...
...Latin America (see p. 13), that even this week it will scarcely get down to action. As the President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original freshness and bloom...
...worked the Conference up to a frenzy of cheers and himself to enthusiastic and forceful gestures as he proposed "Pillars of Peace" for the American Republics. He implored the Conference then & there to drop everything else and unanimously endorse a series of five existing peace accords of which the Briand-Kellogg pact is the most important...
...appearances Rumania could rely upon Britain as being basically true to her incessant promises to support "Collective Security." Instead, last week at Montreux, the British delegation stickled for what they called their "belligerent rights" in the Dardanelles, although the French and Greeks sharply reminded British Lord Stanley that the Briand-Kellogg-Pact-Renouncing-War-As-an Instrument-of-National-Policy "terminated belligerent rights." In the middle of a heated row tall Dr. Titulescu stalked in, denounced the British for "blowing now hot now cold" and rushed off to catch the next train for Bucharest "to calm Rumanian opinion...
...this fifth installment Author Romains sticks mainly to industrial and political developments; some of the earlier characters do not even appear. Tycoon Bertrand's automobile factory booms, and Bertrand's fortunes are furthered by joining forces with Champcenais and the sinister armament-maker, Zülpicher. Briand is shown briefly at the Republic's helm, while Gurau, the ambitious politician, bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin...