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in q conversational manner-and not
with a rolling Scotch burr and in an
oratorical manner.
Momentous Conference.
Bearing in mind that this amazing
conference, the biggest and most mo-
mentous in the history of mankind
so far, is the first real attempt among
nations to get together and evolve some
kind of order out of chaos, some world
wide understanding in place of the in
discriminate cutthroat rivalry of COM
petition, that it is the first tangible
recognition in a world organized into
nations that science has outstripped po-
litical technique and has made the
world In fact a single economic unit
bearing these fundamental facts in
mind, glance closely at these two men
and the conference team back Of them,
recalling that Great Britain and the
House of Windsor have more to lose
from the collapse of our machine
based civilization than any other stale
excepting only the worlds biggest
economic unit, the United States Of
America.
The chief British delegate is tall and
stoop-shouldered with that shock Of
long gray hair which is almost as en-
blematic of the radical and information
alist statesman as the swastika sign
is of the Nazi His step is so quick as
to be almost flssy; his manner Is more
f1dgety almost than that of the Prince
of Wales.
Thorough Politician. -
He looks like a politician. and he is
one to the marrow. He charms on first
acquaintance and makes suchssa good
impression that many complaints have
been made at, international conferences
that he had agreed or said 'fyes" In
private to this chief delegate and that
with the result that all thought be was
for them exclusively only to find out
subsequently that he stood where the
British cabinet had planted him and
not officially for any one more than any
of the others-a situation that led to
some acrimonious exchanges at the last
naval conference.
Since he abandoned his old principles
and political party and aligned himself
with a national cabinet and set out as
an internationalist to make the world
safe for capitalism instead of trying to
break it in order to introduce socialism,
he has made point of looking toward
ultimate ends and evading any closer
view. Hence nobody can find anything
in his various speeches and statements
that commits him to anything. This is
source of very serious annoyance TO
his enemies, of confusion to his friends.
and Of unending jokes at the political
clubs and chancellories.
Break of Friendship.
This is the issue on which Lord
Snowden. his lifelong friend. who stood
by him in the great crisis when the
, Labor ministry and the Labor party
broke up, but who, as an accountant
and former official of the tax depart
ment, has a passion for precise stats-
ments and for phrases which provide
the teeth sometimes to bite upon, has
now openly broken with him. Indeed.
Snowdens attack on Macdonald in the
House of Lords within three weeks oi
the opening Of the conference caused
sensation but the whole gist of it
was nothing more nor less than a COM
plant that the chief British delegate
had not formulated policy for the
Economic Conference. that he had said
great many contradictory things about
! 1t which meant nothing and which
| nobody understood, anyway. and that
| he was really drifting behind the smoke
cloud of his words, hoping, like MicaW-
| Der, for something to turn up as the
! conference progressed.
! But Macdonald, the paciflst, inter-