THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bombshells & Concessions

It was President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels...

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