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Last week in Kansas City, Mo., the Endeavorers conducted their 32nd International conference. As is usual with meetings of this kind, the young people listened to speeches and passed resolutions prepared by adult leaders. They resolved: 1) to uphold the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; 2) to uphold Prohibition. These resolutions were sent as an answer to President Hoover's message of "cordial greetings . . . deep appreciation." In part they said: "[The delegates] send you the assurance of their affectionate regard and pledge their loyalty in the following words...
Only a hint of what went on in private leaked out during the public Council sessions. Famed sleepy-eyed Pacifier Aristide Briand exerted himself to keep harmony...
...spoke M. Briand: "The German delegate is shaking the foundations of the League for domestic political advantage," he rasped. "He is abusing the confidence of the public and giving the League a black eye before the world for inferring that it has not been doing its fullest duty toward minorities...
Besides her complaint on Minorities, Germany was urgently pressing the question: "When will the Allied Powers get out of the Rhineland?" Brought up in Council session, Minister Briand met it by playing for time. France cannot answer, he said, until she knows 'the views of Ramsay MacDonald, newly-elected British Prime Minister. He suggested that it be settled along with other details of the Young Reparations Plan at an International Conference proposed for July or August...
Twelve thousand replies were received; when the ballots were counted the name of white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...