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...League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva. When talk was loud and hopes high, Delegate Davis was obscured by other U. S. representatives. But as the conference began to coast downhill into disagreement and failure, the others tiptoed home one by one. The parley moved too slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson...
Long a friend of Governor Roosevelt, he is already a member of the committee organizing the proposed World Economic Conference. If the next President decides to scramble debts, disarmament and world trade all up in that parley he would have a long search for a Secretary of State so well trained by experience in the practicalities of such problems as Norman Davis. But perhaps Mr. Roosevelt will find him as Mr. Hoover has, even more useful without portfolio...
...Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with the importance of Mr. Davis, his importance has continued great in delving and dickering around Europe for the President, comparatively unnoticed...
British Plan. Making a success of the Conference meant, last week, that the Great Powers must get their new disarmament plans off their Chief Delegates' chests and that these plans must be such as to tempt Germany back into the parley...
...Arms Parley. Bland, tenacious German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath arrived in Geneva for the League Council meeting last week, but not to attend the continuing committee of the Geneva Armament Conference...