News of the Week
Naval Reduction TT is excellent news that the proposal to hold a Five- Power Power Naval Conference in London within the next few months, and possibly before the end of the year, is taking firm shape. The Conference would, no doubt, make unnecessary the second Washington Conference arranged for 1931. The Prime Minister and General Dawes are to be congratulated on their expedition in preparing the way. There must, of course, be other preparation as well as theirs ; it would be lamentable if the London Conference broke down,• in the bad old way, through insufficient preliminary agreement as to. scope and method. The Washington correspondent of the Times, who has been exceptionally well informed on this.subject, hints that President Hoover himself suggested that London should be the meeting place because he recog- nized that Mr. MacDonald cannot release himself from London for a long enough time. - *
