The hitherto. time-honoured practice of forming New Year: resolutions is perhaps falling into desuetude, but diplomat the world are undoubtedly ruminating during Yuletide over many such resolutions, preparatory to tackling! big problems, which are the relies of various international agreements or disagreements.
The Second Hague Conference on January 3 will usher in the New Year. It will be followed on January 20 by the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva and, transcending all, by the London Naval Conference on January 21. Eight other conferences of various Kinds of the League of Nations in the same month and the international gathering at Vienna of the Criminal Investigation Commission will ensure for January 1930 an historical record as a month of diplomacy.
The Hague Conference will not be contentious, for it merely deals with} the reports of the various committees appointed in August to clarify technical points before the Young Plan can operate.
The meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva should be particularly noteworthy, as an effort will be made to harmonies the Kellogg -Pact with the League Covenant, so as to fill in gap in the Covenant, which is help-ess to prevent war if it fails to compose a dispute pacifically. On the other hand, the Kellogg Pact outlaws war entirely.
Most of the signatories of the League Covenant have also signed the Kellogg Pact, and if the effort succeeds it will mean a great stride towards world pacifism, which the London Naval Conference should finally install as the sole motif of humanity—Reuter,
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