Foreign News: Peculiar Circumstances

The London Conference became even more like a storage battery, last week, with Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson still the negative pole, and with ideas and proposals crackling and shooting off like sparks from the positive pole, Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France!

How great a victory this was for President Herbert Hoover not every U. S. citizen realized. Yet a month ago the conference was threatened with failure at the start because the French had sent out a diplomatic note showing extreme reluctance to cooperate (TIME, Jan....

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