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Partisan politics, as fiercely fought as at the stricken field of Genoa, although in a minor key, are playing the decisive part in an amusing "comedy of errors" now going on in Paris over the site of the next Olympic games. The whole story is a striking reflection of a certain type of post-war French mentality. When the 1920 Olympiad was awarded to Antwerp, taking the place of Berlin, and the games were such a pronounced success. France bent every effort to secure the next award. She felt that she deserved it, as she deserved many other things...
...Tomorrow". M. Barthon is reported to have said after reading the latest Russian billet-doux, "tomorrow we will be packing our trunks or buying bathing suits." At present the choice of the French delegation is not know it does not greatly matter. The Genoa conference seems no nearer its supposed aim, the economic reconstruction of Europe, than when it heard Mr. Lloyd-George's first optimistic speech...
...Frank Vanderlip, who has been on the scene of action since the start, writing to the New York "World" declared that he was daily more thankful that the United States was not represented at the Conference. More recently, that everyone at Genoa is actuated by "a selfish nationalism shaped by domestic political necessities." True, but like most true facts it is not new; and historian will say that selfish nationalism had been the characteristic of European nations for some time. It is cropping out again now because the Genoa meeting is the largest since that at Paris, in which...
...does not matter what the French or the Russians or the Little Entente or any of the rest to at Genoa; except that it is more pleasant to buy bathing suits (and use them) than to swelter over trunk-packing...
...still the civilized nations, turning from Genoa for a moment, ask "What next?" Washington critics have declared that Wu's victory is for the benefit of China; and the General's continued assurances that his sole aim is to put China's house in order give color to the belief. The President, Hsu Shih, is to remain in office until the end of his term; nor has Wu taken any steps toward entering Peking. His announced policy is only to call a constitutional convention uniting north and south China, and to put the Government on its feet...