Chapter I: Foreword

This book does not pretend to be a history or even an adequate review of the work of the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, nor does it pretend to be the writer’s full appraisement of that work. It is what its sub-title suggests, a collection of observations, rejections and irritations. These were set down each week of the first two months of the Conference and were published practically as they stand here by the McClure Syndicate.

I. M. T.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. PRE-CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS 1

II. ARMISTICE DAY 29

III. NOVEMBER 12, 1921 41

IV. THE FRENCH AT THE CONFERENCE 60

V. THE PARIS SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF HATES 83

VI. WHY DID HE DO IT? 99

VII. DRAMATIC DIPLOMACY 114

VIII. THE MOODS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 137

IX. PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR PLACES 160

X. CHINA AT THE CONFERENCE 186

XI. THE MEASURE OF THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE 206

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PEACEMAKERS—BLESSED AND OTHERWISE

_Observations, Reflections and Irritations
at an International Conference_