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Sick and tired of conferences though the statesmen and peoples of most Great Powers are. there must be a Naval Conference next year because on Dec. 31, 1936 the London Naval Treaty fixing a ratio of 5-5-3 between the U. S., Britain and Japan will have run its full term. If the expiration of this treaty is not to provoke a disastrous naval building race by the Big Three, new pacts must be promptly drafted, signed and ratified...
Unworn Crown. Pious Jugoslavs, shivering bareheaded in the chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
London, Oct. 24--Sharp differences between the United States and Japan on the latter's demands for equal naval strength and security rights developed during the initial parley between statesmen of the two powers here today...
...reduced for them to one dollar; it entails receipt of the weekly bulletins and sporadic larger documents published by the Association dealing with recent international events of American significance, and permits attendance at the discussions, ten a year, held at the Copley on important issues and led by competent statesmen, professors, publicists from all the world...
...consciousness of the necessity of a definite foreign policy and a knowledge of the means by which that policy can be worked out are indispensable in any country. Also, the people of a nation must be able to judge the value of the foreign policy pursued by their statesmen. The aim of the Foreign Policy Association is to make Americans aware of the importance of an intelligent foreign policy and also of the importance of a large group of people capable of criticizing the foreign policy pursued by their government. The student membership which the Foreign Policy Association is offering...