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...Opening of the Five-Power Naval Parley at London...
Today America's delegates sail for the London Conference. According to President Hoover, who is largely responsible for the existence of the new parley, a definite slash in the seafaring implements of war is desired, rather than the negative restraint of limitation alone. The diplomatic rigmarole of another generation is to be the first contribution to the scrap-heap. In the second attempt of which America is a main instigator, civilization is sanguine of one more affirmation of the futility...
Therefore the note which France sent in duplicate to all the naval parley Powers last week was handed out in an official English translation to U. S. correspondents at Paris, was handed out to Washington newsmen next day by the French embassy, but was not delivered to the State Department until four days afterwards...
...Hoover did not charge last week. Instead he sent his most trusted diplomatist, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, hotfooting to Paris to parley with Prime Minister Tardieu...
Though mercilessly destructive in the main, the French note contained a brief constructive suggestion for a Mediterranean naval accord between France, Britain, Italy and Spain?a country not invited to the London parley. Since October, Spain has waited hopefully for an invitation. Spurred by the French note, she last week virtually demanded admission, Dictator Primo de Rivera citing "Spain's duty to intervene . . . because of her geography and history...