The Genoa Conference. By J. Saxon Mills. (Hutchinson. 24s. net.)—Mr.
Mills, who ie a warm admirer of the Prime Minister, has produced a careful record of the Genoa Conference with Mr. Lloyd George in the limelight from the rise to the fall of the curtain. Mr. Lloyd George himself contributes a preface on the " historic gathering," at which, he says, he strove for peace and international good will. Whether the Conference actually brought peace nearer by revealing anew the profound differences that exist between the Allies themselves and between them and the Germans and Bolsheviks is another question. Nothing tangible resulted from the six weeks of talk and ban- queting, except an eight months' truce in Eastern Europe which may or may not be observed by Trotsky. Mr. Mills is reduced to writing about the value of the " imponderabilia in a case of this kind," and incautiously speaks of " the results to be har- vested " at The Hague where, unfortunately, nothing whatever was done. However, if anyone desires to read about the Genoa Conference, he may be assured that Mr. Mills's account is trust- worthy, so far as it goes, and carefully written. The voluminous appendices contain some of the documents, and there are a number of photographs of the delegates.
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