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Clearly, Chancellor Snowden, having browbeaten a 60% concession to his demands out of foes who included Il Duce, could concede 40% and still return to London in triumph. For half a day Patient-as-a-Job Snowden pondered the Latin offer, then rejected it with the comment "not yet adequate." Worn to a frazzle, sleepless and mad clear through, M. Briand and Signer Mosconi were undoubtedly in a mood to let the conference crack up then and there, but a few more days for dickering at The Hague were left, and the dire alternative remained of adjourning to a later date and leaving Germany unfairly saddled with the Dawes Plan after Sept. 1, 1929.