THE LEAGUE: Overture

With showers of blue sparks the great European expresses slid into Geneva's railway station last week, and out of the windows came the bags & brief cases of many a diplomat. Both the Council and the General Assembly of the League of Nations were reopening.

As usual, the statesmen did not wait for the gun. Hardly had they shaken hands with their favorite concierges before they were padding about the corridors, lobbying in each other's bedrooms.

Marked by correspondents as the statesman of this week was that vivacious veteran of high politics the Foreign...

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