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...University, except for the organizations taking spring trips and those Seniors inspired by studious necessity, has been hibernating, the rest of the world has continued to keep the more or less even tenor of its way. All, that is, but the supposably "economic" conference of the nations at Genoa, which, during the past week or ten days, has passed from the potentially sublime to the positively ridiculous. What "might have been" an extremely sane and important conclave is fast deteriorating into a free-for-all diplomatic contest with no holds barred...
...German treaty, ultimatum, reply, charge of ambiguity, counter-reply, and second ultimatum have followed "fast and ever faster," until the whole procedure is now entangled in a maze of words and assumed misunderstandings. And more than once has the disruption of the entire gathering been threatened. The atmosphere at Genoa is as calmly deliberative as must have been that in the vicinity of the Kilkenhy cats whose talls were knotted together. In a final effort to call down peace the Allied powers have adopted the somewhat Alexandrian tactics of practically ordering Germany out of the discussion of Russian affairs...
...French refusal to give any sanction to either reparations or armament reductions has been a serious blow to those optimistic of the results at Genoa. But Barthou has announced frankly and firmly that such proposals will not be even considered, inasmuch as France is perilously insecure in her position. Even the inclusion of those problems in the Russian proposals does not seem likely to shake her resolve...
...Columbus is more significant than most of its predecessors of the past four years. With over thirty nations participating, Germany is cast in a more active role than in any other assemblage since the war, and Russia is represented for the first time since the fall of Kerensky. At Genoa, too, the powers have to face problems which are as difficult as any since Versailles...
Broadly speaking, the Genoa Conference will be a time of economic stock-taking, domestically and internationally. If the Conference is not moderately successful, Lloyd George will almost certainly fall, the conference method will lose prestige, and Europe will be at least as badly off as now. If the Conference is successful, it will mark the beginning of that European house-ordering which Secretary Hughes made the condition of American assistance for Europe in her troubles...