On Saturday and Sunday the people of good will (and
we suspect that the Conference owes especial gratitude to Belgian and Japanese Delegates) were seeking to make peace. M. Briand did not encourage them, by issuing a statement, of which the point really was that the Young Report must be adopted as a whole, and that Great Britain was assuming the responsibility of destroy- ing the experts' work. Happily, however, French opinion began this week to veer round towards admitting that the Report is not necessarily " intangible " or " indivisible." This is impoitant, and gave us at once better hope of success for Mr. Snowden's attitude. Monday's Committee meeting was devoted to the subject of Reparations in kind, and the discussions were quite amicable. The Pres. ident of the Board of Trade led the British Delegation excellently, as he had done on Saturday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the calm continued to prevail after the storms. The financial experts are said to be making good progress with suggestions for their Com- mittee.
