Washington, Nov, 20, Senator Key Pittman, Chairman Jot the powerful Foreigh Relations Committee, conferred to-day with Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, and afterwards characterized the contention that the United States was" responsible for the failure of the Brussels Conference, as "absurd."
"He asserted that nothing. ever had been expected of the Brussels Conference, but that its result had been discouraging in that it was the cul-ruination of one failure after another to preserve pence,
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