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Apart from shifting their whole attitude, so as to take Soviet Russia seriously and respectfully for the first time, the achievements of League statesmen in Geneva last week were these...
Capitalism+Communism=Peace? It was not that everyone suddenly realized at Geneva last week that Litvinov is a Briand. The reason why Briand himself and other League statesmen suddenly began to frown upon the bearman was a trifle sordid. In recent months the Soviet Government has been swinging more and more buying orders from the U. S. to Europe. Pleased Europe wants more. French manufacturers were fervently with M. Briand when he lauded last week "the great moderation of M. Litvinov...
After hemming, hawing and being very, very nice to Comrade Litvinov for three days, the League statesmen weasled by adopting a resolution in the Commission on European Union ("the United States of Europe") which earmarked the Litvinov Pact for "further study." Up jumped the bearman, growling that Russia was ready to sign a pact of economic non-aggression now, and that now was the time to sign it. He moved for action. Up jumped Turkish Foreign Minister Twefik Rushdi Bey and seconded the motion. The bearman, turning upon Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, wanted to know...
...conduct of Foreign Affairs is neither so brilliant and romantic as the writers of fiction and the producers at Hollywood would make it, nor so tedious and dry as the memoirs of statesmen, with their concomitant quotations of dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career with a constant heavy routine and something of the emergency quality of the physician's profession, since no one can know when the ills that the body politic is heir to will break forth, and when the outbreaks occur, first aid is always sought of the diplomatic representatives. No Secretary...
...countries of the world are applying themselves to the problem of immediate mitigation and the ultimate disappearance of war. Among the elements which go to make for the success of a policy of peace and perhaps the most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value...