Courade Litvinoff's "Serap-it-all-jam" at Geneva hus evoked a chorus of derision. The Liberal papers are equally as scathing as the Conservative journals in condemnation of the scheme which is alternatively described as grotesque and farcical or magnificent, but not peace.
'The "Daily' Telegraph declares that none but, a simpleton would the plan at'all seriously, while "Daily News," which is particularly down on "Moscow's peace Jest", points out that to ask England to disarm completely and leave her trade routes (on which the very life of her thronged cities depends) utterly defenceless is not exactly the same og to ask Russia, which is actically self-supporting, to do so.
The plan is generally characteris ed as an obvious attempt to put the other Great Powers in a false Tight.
The "Daily Herald" alone reads im the proposals an invitation to the other Powers to reveal how far they are in earnest—Reut
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