15 SEPTEMBER 1928, page 1

News Of The Week

THE most important, and also the most unhappy, event of the week has been M. Briand's speech in the League Assembly at Geneva. Germany, we think, is entitled to say that the......

On Tuesday, At Geneva, Lord Cushendun Contrived To Make A

speech which was loyal to M. Briand in the sense that it did not unsay anything which M. Briand had said, but was nevertheless as different in manner from M. Briand's lecture as......

On The Whole, However, Lord Cushendun Was Much Impressed By

what had been accomplished. He pointed out that the British Navy had been reduced by 48,708 men, comparing January, 1928 with July, 1914. For the same dates the reduction of......

All The Facts Suggest That It Is Insane For France

to - rub salt into the wounds of Germany just - now. The mast General Election in Germany 'brought_ a distinctively Republican and pacific and mainly Socialist Government into......

Turning To The Anglo-french Naval Compromise, Lord...

he had in effect said before, that Great Britain and France had merely tried to help the Disarmament Conference by reaching an agree- Ment which could be laid before the......

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