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...Assemblies. Last week the world of diplomacy grew crosseyed with looking simultaneously towards Geneva and Aix-les-Bains. It was all due to the Protocol.* At Geneva the French were trying to revamp the Protocol before the League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
Three Speeches. During the week, the most notable assembly speeches all bore upon the protocal: 1) Premier Paul Painleve of France asserted that his country had in no way abandoned the Protocol, expressed a strong desire to see it revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes...
Last spring a protocol to the League of Nations for the purpose of guaranteeing European frontiers and punishing any aggressor nation, having been laboriously arrived at, was knocked on the head by the refusal of Great Britain to sign...
...Gases. The Society went "strongly" on record against ratification of the Geneva protocol forbidding the use of poison gases in warfare. Reasons: "National safety and on the grounds of humanity...
Chemical War. The U. S. brought up the advisability of banning exportation of poison gas. Hungary brought up the question of abolishing the use of bacteria in war. Considerable differences arose concerning chemicals and bacteria designed for war and those for peaceful scientific purposes. The Conference ultimately adopted a protocol generally prohibiting chemical and bacteriological warfare as laid down in the Washington Treaty...