THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 1,000 Delegates

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Forty-six governments, including three nonLeague member states,* sent a total of slightly over 1,000 delegates, last week, to the International Economic Conference, sponsored at Geneva by the League of Nations. Scarcely a politician was present. Big businessmen headed the various delegations of practicing economic experts. To provide a banquet of facts for digestion by the 1,000 economists, staff officials of the League had ready 500.000 words of special reports.

Colossal. . .

Purpose. The Council of the League of Nations explicitly postulated that "the Conference is...

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