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Stabilization the Goal. "I hope that in separating at the conclusion of our labors we shall not yield to the temptation to indulge in mutual congratulation . . ." said Hoover Spokesman Gibson. "We have now completed a draft convention which, after study by the governments, will go forward to the general conference. I should not be frank if I did not say that this draft falls far short of our hopes and expectations...
...Make no mistake; it is not my purpose to belittle what we have done," continued Mr. Gibson. "Although our hopes may thus be disappointed, we can find comfort in the measure of agreement which has been reached in this commission. We can at least foresee a stabilization of armaments, the setting up of a machinery to receive and disseminate information on armaments, to educate public opinion and to prepare systematically for the work of future conferences, as successive milestones in the continuing process of disarmament...
Misleaders Flayed. Finally Ambassador Gibson hit out squarely at the professional disarmament optimists who have misled world public opinion for so long...
Arguments by many another great statesman were equally weasled. In the midst of the proceedings Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov quit the Commission last month, denounced Mr. Gibson and the rest as "hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...
This system of "budgetary limitation" was championed from the first by France, opposed for years by Great Britain, opposed to the bitter end by Mr. Gibson. He abstained from voting when this basic clause passed the Preparatory Commission, then attached a U. S. reservation exhorting the forthcoming World Disarmament Conference to reconsider...