Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped:
"The conference situation is desperate. It holds the lives of the young men...
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