Evening star., 1922-06-11
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S|CKlY At: HAGUE
Holland Preparing. for New
Russia Conference to
Meet. Thursday.
BY the Associated Press.

THE HAGUE. June 10.-,Holland,
with. traditional Dutch deliberation
and thoroughness. is preparing a
proper reception for the adjourned
Genoa conference on Russian affairs.
which wiz meet here next Thursday.
Vice Premier Barthou of France has
allegorically called this conference
"the child of Cannes" because 1t was
born of the supreme councils meet
ings in the French Rivera, which de-
cided upon an effort at European eco
nomic reconstruction. and called the
Genoa conference. of which The
Hague meeting is an outgro,wth.
If one may judge from the reports
emanating from the various capitals
of Europe. however. the health Of the
conference infant leaves much to be
desired. Official Russian soviet utter
ances show no disposition to abandon
the soviet stand on communism nor
withdraw the famous memorandum
submitted at Genoa on May IL, which
unacceptable as a basis for immedi-
ate negotiations.
Nope RussianF VIII Turn.
This policy has provoked skepticism
throughout Europe concerning the Hague
meeting of the experts to go on with
the Russian discussions, yet everybody
is patiently awaiting Russia's final at
titude. which is being studied in Mos
COW by the powers that be of the Rus
sian nation. Moreover. the recent re-
ports from Russia showing increased
disorganization.. increased. misery and
an ever-multiplying death rata from
famine have apparently convinced
Europe that some start must be made
in saving the Russian nation.
furthermore, direct admissions from
the bolshevik authorities that they are
desperately in need of foreign assistance
are accepted. by optimists here as a
basis for hope that the experts meeting
at The Hague may find modus vivendi
serving as foundation for a practical
bridge between communism and cap
italiSm.
Assemble June Is.
On June Is the delegates from the
various powers, except those of Russia
and Germany will assemble to define
their attitude on the questions Of Rus
s!a's debts and her treatment OF foreign
owned property and also to organize a
Russians, beginning June 26.
On the way to the far-famed beach
of Scheveningen, some three miles
out, stands the Palace Of Peace. built
by Andrew Carnegie. where the ses-
sions of the conference will be held.
have luxurious headquarters in one
of the most beautiful historic build
ings at The Hague, the Ridderzall
built in the thirteenth century, where
Queen Wilhelmina each year opens
parliament and which was the seat
of the second peace conference. The
queen. the prince consort. and Prin-
cess Juilana are now yachting in Nor
wegian waters and will not be here
for the opening of the conference.
Iceland Declines.
Distant Iceland is the only country
which so far has declined the invita-
tion to The Hague. She claims she is
not vitally interested in Russia.
Jonkheer Van Karnebeck, the foreign
minister, who attended the Washing.
ton and Genoa conferences. is direct
ing the plans for the meeting here.
Although the United States is. not
to participate in the conferences. cir
cumstances will probably be the
cause of Americans sitting officially
at the peace palace simultaneously
with the Russian comr1ission. In
July the. United States and Norway
will submit to the international court
of arbitration the question of the
seizure OF Norwegian ships by Ameri-
can warships during the war. Chand-
Ter Anderson of Washington will
argue the case for the United States
and Benjamin Vogt. Norwegian min
lister at London, for Norway.