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Strictly speaking-though no one spoke strictly-the Conference met not in Lausanne, high above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections...
While shutters clicked Chancellor von Papen offered a light to Premier Herriot and a movietone recorded a chat between them and Prime Minister Mac-Donald in the garden of the Beau-Rivage. Later, lenses caught von Papen in his bathing suit, stepping into Lac Leman. Meanwhile his retinue of 60 Germans (one of the largest delegations) denied by the hour that the "Cabinet of Monocles" has any intention of promoting a Dictatorship or a Monarchist restoration in Germany...
Hoover Plan. Meanwhile at Geneva, at the far end of Lac Leman, the Disarmament Conference and its committees adjourned last week, to meet again after "private conversations" have taken place between the Great Powers concerned. A plan, said to have been devised by President Hoover last January and held in reserve until last week was submitted to the chief delegates by U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Simons Gibson. Simple, the Hoover plan is this: Let each nation determine for itself and announce to the Conference what weapons & effectives it needs for purposes of maintaining peace & order within...
Into raptures went the Press: ". . . superb situation . . . uninterrupted view of snow-clad Mount Blanc ... on the other side, from a terrace, one looks down on Lake Leman...
George W. Leman of Irving Trust spoke of Asia's silver problem...