Foreign News: Lightning Diplomacy

Lunch time in Geneva is breakfast time in Washington. One day this week, while President Hoover was quaffing his breakfast coffee, Swiss waiters with flying coattails rushed a champagne lunch up to the suite of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in Geneva's swank Hotel Beau Rivage. Cheerful Host MacDonald and guests representing the U. S., France, Germany and Italy, had something to celebrate. They had reached a formula for bringing Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, which the Fatherland quit last September, and they had signed a joint three-point declaration which all agreed...

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