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Thus everyone was obliged to seem "surprised" all over again at Jonkheer Doktor J. Loudon, stiff-necked Minister to France of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Chairman of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission...
...Jonkheer Loudon broached his suggestion, last week, by declaring that he is tired of having every session of his Disarmament Commission break up in fruitless disagreements. "Therefore," said he, "I refuse to reconvene the Commission . . . unless ordered to do so by the Assembly, or unless there seems to be some real prospect of agreement...
...intention," concluded Jonkheer Loudon, springing his suggestion, "My intention is to urge the delegates of the Great Powers [including a U. S. observer] to meet in Paris to discuss with me in secret the possibilities of arriving at an understanding...
...sooner had the Dutchman spoken than Great Britain's Baron Cushendun and M. Paul-Boncour of France expressed disapproval and repeatedly used the term "surprised." Both told Jonkheer Loudon that their governments could not countenance a reversion to "Secret Diplomacy." Since Britain and France have just come to a secret naval understanding (TIME, Aug. 13) the indignation of their representatives was akin to that of small boys caught in the jam closet...
Concluding with a reference to finance, Jonkheer Beelaerts said: "In 1924 we obtained an American loan of $40,000,000 which will be repaid in 1929. That loan was raised in America not because we could not get money in Holland, but as a matter of deliberate policy...