15 APRIL 1922, Page 1
On Monday Signor Facta, the Italian Premier, who pre- sided,
stated that the object of the Conference was to restore " such conditions in Europe as will enable the peoples to live peacefully side by side." The delegates, he said, must work for the peace of Europe in the same sincere spirit as that which inspired the Washington Conference. Signor Facta concluded with the important statement that the assent of all the Govern- ments represented to the Cannes resolutions would be taken for granted. The Bolsheviks, that is to say, were assumed to have accepted the conditions laid down at Cannes, because they had sent delegates to Genoa. Chicherin, the chief Bol- shevik envoy, afterwards confirmed this assumption, which in itself was somewhat speculative.
