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...Government offering to negotiate terms of peace. The document, which looks like a free translation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social, does not, however, make any allusion to a surrender of arms-a stipulation which, as the Free State Government has constantly emphasized, must precede any peace parley...
Premier Theunis is known to have disfavored the French policy of giving Britain the cold shoulder in the now possible reparations parley. It transpires that this far-seeing statesman was in communication with the Germans, and that he was responsible for sending M. Jaspar, Belgian Foreign Secretary, to Italy to hear the Stinnes proposals. When these were communicated to him he gave Loucheur full support for his mission to England. In this way he was able to bring considerable pressure to bear on Poincaré, who found himself in a quandary owing to the popularity of Loucheur's efforts...
...world conference to be called by the International Chamber of Commerce, and has suggested that it should be held in America, where the deliberations would be untainted by the influences of contending parties. Both Judge Gary and Herr Stinnes refused to make statements to the press, so their parley remains as mysterious as it is significant...
...announced that as far as the Administration is concerned, the policy of isolation is put away and America, sleeves rolled up, is ready to help clear the European mess:-"We, cannot escape these problems by calling them European. . . . . they are world problems." Mr. Hughes suggested a general parley on reparations to be held, not by politicians, but by leading financiers and business men appointed by the various governments...
...Phillip Gibbs recently predicted that, without the United States, the Genoa parley would be a failure. When one considers that the most important nations now left to confer are themselves divided on the point of wanting a conference its success seems jeopardized. When further, any consideration of rearranging German reparations and balancing of budgets of some of the nations are not to be discussed, it is difficult to comprehend how any progress can be made...