Signer Vittorio Scialoja (of Italy), President of the Council of the League of Nations, officially announced late in the week that the preliminary League disarmament conference scheduled to meet at Geneva on Feb. 15, 1926 (TIME, Dec. 21), has been postponed to an indefinite date which will be set by the Council when it assembles next month.
Between the lines of Signor Scialoja's bland pronouncement, diplomats read the disheartening truth that the world is not yet ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking...
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