INTERNATIONAL: Egg of Peace

Talking over the radio one night last week President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard said a number of things so good that soon they were on the way to President Hoover and to Congress in the form of a petition signed by President Woodrow Wilson's peaceful Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, and many another.

In Washington the manifesto, as correspondents soon found, was treated by President Hoover and Cabinet as "political dynamite." As the day was Saturday prominent statesmen made all haste to play golf.

In Geneva the Council of the League of Nations had just convoked the League Assembly to...

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