What probable effect will be produced upon the world by the total breakdown in Geneva last week of the U. S.-British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley? Which government was chiefly to blame? Were precautions neglected at the start, which, if taken, might have greatly fostered success?
To answer these questions fairly and convincingly became last week a game of wits, which aggressive and argumentative persons lost no time in playing with one another.
Precautions? When U. S. President Calvin Coolidge issued invitations to the Parley (TIME, Feb. 21), he stressed an intent to extend the...