THE CABINET: Reasons

Reasons—and Russia

The President sent one of the White House cars to fetch Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There was an hour's conference. When they uncloseted themselves, Mr. Borah alone was in a mood to speak. He announced that, although pessimistic, he is heartily in favor of the President's desire to call an international conference at Washington this autumn. His grounds for pessimism: 1) France has flatly refused to consider land armaments, including aircraft; 2) Great Britain will not curtail her submarines* so long as France's army remains large;...

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