The Inter-American Conference at Buenos Aires was so dwarfed when it convened last week by the towering fireworks of President Roosevelt's swing along Latin America (see p. 13), that even this week it will scarcely get down to action. As the President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again—also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy"...
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