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...with its fleeting luncheons and dinners and myriad speeches on everything from the automobile library to the little red schoolhouse, is a denial of sober and detailed consideration of a problem. Likewise doubtful in value are conferences of college and secondary school executives, where partisan speechmaking soon resolves the parley into the polite immobility of a disarmament conference...
Speaking for the Liberal Opposition, onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George blamed the Government for omitting to mention the "disastrous failure" of the Foreign Office in permitting a breakdown of the Anglo-U. S. negotiations at the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, Aug. 15 et ante...
Therefore aristocrats of several continents harkened and were diverted, last week, when Ernest Augustus Taylor flayed at a Conservative rally in London the motives which caused U. S. President Calvin Coolidge to convene his recent, abortive Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME...
...three non-commissioned officers he crossed the Dutch border in automobiles and swept up to the gate of Count von Bentincks castle. Guards objected. Col. Lea's eloquence and the irresistible atmosphere of the Americans prevailed. The great gates opened. Within the castle a shrewd secretary appeared. Parley. The Kaiser was not immediately available. Would the Americans mind waiting just a little? The Americans were disinclined to wait, but already they had delayed too long. Dutch guards, grimly armed and in increasing numbers, tramped in from the chill night. Col. Lea and his supporters were forced reluctantly to leave...
...President Coolidge decided to try again for a naval disarmament parley similar to the unfruitful Geneva Conference initiated by him last year? He had not. But so thought many a reader who depends upon the Times to say what it means without levity...