A correspondent has suggested to us that we should say
something about the origin and nature of the Anibassa- dors' Conference at Paris, as though its name is now prominent few people could say how, why and when the Conference was created. The Conference was really an off-shoot of the Supreme Council which for three years after the War managed the affairs of the Allies in Europe. At first the regular diplomatic services were crowded out, but gradually the Supreme Council became glad enough to depute to others work which they could not do them- selves. Perhaps the best-remembered work of the Con- ference of Ambassadors is the delimitation of the Eastern frontier of Poland. Nations which were not interested in such special questions gradually ceased to attend the Conference which, for the most part, has been conducted by the British and Italian Ambassadors in Paris helped by a French ex-Ambassador, and often by the Japanese Ambassador.
