INTERNATIONAL: Conference Diplomacy

When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion. He, like Demosthenes, believed that the first, second and third parts of oratory were all "action." He consented to send a representative to the Genoa Conference, but upon the conspicuous failure of that meet, M. Poincare sent his soldiers to the Ruhr and stuffed wool into his ears.

The fashion has been revived and the world is anxiously waiting for its political leaders to cut their coats according to their cloth and not indulges themselves in luxuries. Fred I. Kent, Vice President of...

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