News of the Week
AT Geneva on Thursday,,March 22nd, Count Clauzel, the French delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the Disarmament Committee, begged his colleagues to hold up some of their discussion because the technical experts and their Governments were expectedto announce some successful results of their deliberationa. This success, as we have written in a leading article, seems to be in the business of finding a basis for reckoning relative naval armaments and may mean the clearing away of tiresome barriers to advance. Then M. Litvinoff spoke again and apparently wearied the Committee. He railed against. Lord Cushendun and even against Mr. Gibson. When he became thnciliatOry and offered to substitute at intervals further schemes for total disarma- ment, the Committee seems to have been less enthusiastic than ever. The g'O'Od news Of the day was that Spain will return to the League, of which she has been such a valuable member.
