Evening star., 1922-05-23
|NDEX|NG RESULTS
/ OF GENOA PARLEY
Certain High Lights Remain
in Memory, City Once More
Busting Port.
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOWRER.

By Cable to The star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1S22.
GENOA, May 23.-Certain high
lights remain in memory now that
Genoa has become a mere bustling
port and the power and glory of the
conference have departed. Materially
this was a memorable meeting. AL
though the number of participants.
employees, helpers, workmen, police
and others reached about 10000, the
local organization was very good. The
press arrangements were excellent.
The telegraph and telephone services
went with snap and precision. show
ing well what the Italians are capa-
BILE of when they try. The hospi-
tality was princely. Nothing was
spared in money or effort to make
the conference the success which, ma
terially, it certainly was.
Memorable. too. was the spectacle
on on the last day of the representatives
of thirty-two states, mostly of that
homo Europaeus-perhapS the most
predatory of known creatureS-sol-
emnly swearing to abstain for
period of eight months from all ag-
gression. The calling of the roll,
with responses such as Albania ac
cepts," Bulgaria accepts" and so on
down the alphabet, gave hints per-
haps- that the war was not in vain.
Views of the Nations.
How do the various nations consider
The results? The Russians are highly
pleased. They consider that a long
step forward was made in the fact
that Russians and non-Russians met
and discussed matters in concilia-
tory spirit. The Moscow men hope
much from the meeting at The Hague.
The British welcome to their return
ing prime minister properly crowns
his superb struggle to achieve results
which could not in the present condi-
tions be achieved.
The British and Italians entered
into a kind of entente cordiale and
their plan for commercial treaty
clearly indicates the solid front they
may be expected to show during the
coming months. Prime Minister Lloyd
Georges statement that "a strong
and prosperous Italy is in the interest
OF Britain' has caused extraordinary
enthusiasm here. How far it is JUS
tined only the developments of the
next few months can reveal but If
the sentiment lasts it will mean the
end of the British policy in favor of
the Greeks in the near east and pos
Sibly pacihcation there.
Seen from Paris the conference was
notable in avoiding a break between
France and the rest of the old en-
tente powers. The Russians, it is be-
iieFeu, kept tne FTencn from ndFlnS
TO leave Genoa. The Japanese had
little to gain and nothing to lose.
The smaller nations. which were
hopeful of economic restoration, are
keenly disappointed, but they feel
that participation by the United
States was necessary for lasting eff
fects. The attitude of those strange,
shadowing figures outside the con-
ference, yet ever present, varies. Ga
briele D AnnunZio, as his observer
delegate" Capt. Coselschi announces,
approves of the conference and in
vites international cola boration In
rebuilding the world of the spirit
Louis I, pretender to crown in the
Caucasus. whose present address is
Cannes, claims to have been wronged
Necause no action was taken in his
case. The oppressed states" of Asia
and also Montenegro are unhappy,
but all look to the United States.
Real Danger for Hague Meeting.
The real danger for The Hague
meeting, as the economist Vilfredo
Pareto remarks is that the supposed
resources of Russia be the occasion
for crazy speculation. with an ensu-
ing business panic. Tie United States
the best informed nation regarding
Russia. has little need for investiga-
tion. An American expert at The
Hague might produce an excellent
result on his colleagues and bring
Europe to a less eager attitude to-
ward Russian concessions. The moral
objection against meeting the boil
sheviki is commonly considered as
mere American hypocrisy. One en-
tireiJ beneficial result of the confer
ence was the signing on Saturday
night Of a new 1talo-Jugoslav pact
whereby both agree to carry out the
Rapallo treaty within a month. the
disputed points as to Fiume being
regulated by mixed commission.