Evening star., 1925-02-08
CONTINUED from Yesterdays Starr

Round a horseshoe of tables, COW
cred with green baiZe, sat men of all
nations-swarthy Latins, fair Scan
dinavians, Semitic Prussians. Orien-
tails, Anglo-Saxons-men of every
race and cline. Where the clip of the
horseshoe might have been sat the
President. and by his side the slender,
STOPPING, dreamy old English repre-
sentative, the Earl of Dunfour. In
the center of the horseshoe tables
were set for the writers and secre
taries,
Between the%ends of the shoe was
a solitary table. Two men sat alone
here; one, the biggest man in the
room, Seton, and the other the frail-
est figure there, but the most domi-
mating, the chief of the League of
the Covenant.
1t seemed to me, as | sat nearby
with Dan Lamont among the clerk s
and secretaries, the little chief was
almost spent. His mind was keen
and alert as ever, but when he rose
to speak he came slowly to his feet,
and his one hand rested on the great
shoulder of the man beside him.
Some of his phrases are memorable.
THE League of the Covenant, gem
tlemen," he said once, lis not on it's
defense. 1t is the world, as repre-
sented by you, which has to justify
it's position
Again
THE printed paper before you, gen.
tlemen, embodies the demands of the
League of the Covenant. You are
not here to discuss these demands.
You are here to accede to themr
They stormed at him, some of them
why" shouted the German envoy
why should we bear the insuffer-
able insolence of this pirate? This
hall is surrounded by the soldiers of
the American Republic-why does not
It's president give orders for the ar
rest of this man and his accomplice
and their bringing before a tribunal
of the nations on charges of piracy
and murder"
The chief of the League of the
Covenant is immune from any such
proceeding" said the President
How immune? What immunity is
to be given TO criminal thief f-dogs?"
The chief of the League of the
Covenant is safeguarded by my prom
ise of immunity" Mr.. Whitcomb said
tartly.
II have no fear Mr.. President" the
chief said coolly, that your promise
will not be kept. But / should like
to inform the gentleman representing
Germany that he is talking into the
receiver of a radio installation which
is directly connected to the airships
of the league, and that any attempt
at violence to either myself or my
second in command would immedi-
ately be followed by the anes-
thetizing-at least-of the confer
ence here assembled. / have to add,
however, that the installation is not
there as a safeguard, but simply that
1 may communicate with my crews
The German subsided, little white
faced
Then rose the British representa-
tive, the Earl of Dunfour, slowly. to
the great height that his scholarly
stoop could not diminish. Gripping
the lapels of his coat in that favor
ite attitude of his. he spoke to the
conference with the grave courtesy
that always distinguished him.
He deprecated at once the use OF
hard terms to any one who was there,
as they all were the guests of the
United States. He thought that the
Indignation of the genetleman rep
resenting the German Republic was
perhaps little overdone.
The League of the Covenant had
claimed certain power by which 1t
was prepared 10 enforce lIS Qena ndS.
Discussion of the demands, therefore,
was waste of time until it could
be proved that the league had the
power it claimed. Personally, he thought
the reputation of the chief of the
league, whose idRtity now was made
public, his reputation a s a physicist.
was almost a guarantee that the
power was there. In addition. there
was the fact that the conference had
been summoned by the President of
the United States, who apparently
thought there was something In it,
But through the prescience Of the
chief of the league himself, there was
among the members of the confer
ence number of men greatly distin-
guished in science. These distin-
guished men were there for a pur-
pose, which was to examine, on be-
half of the lay members of the con-