The complex nature of the prolem becomes more and more apparent as the debates continue, ly there can be no real equality of treatment if foreigners subject to the application Customs regulations and tariffs which can be used against them ut any time so as to muke their existence impossible, Govern ments, on the other hand, are very oth to part with the least bit of their sovereignty in internal affairs, A further difficulty is presenta by federations of states. possess autonomous rights, and expressing the grea sympathy with the objects of the conference, but he wound up by saying that it would be impossible for the United States Government to be a party to the convention, as it affected the privileges of various States in the Union, The Chinese Minister took the opportunity of saying that China welcomed the principle of equal treat ment for nationals and foreigners, but she was unfortunately prevent ed by circumstances from joining. in the movement—a discreet allusion to the desire of the gentlemen at Nanking to abolish extraterritorial. ity. The conference is attended by nearly 200 delegates and assistant delegates and observers from about 50 countries, of which six are not even members of the League, and as every speech has to be translated ito French or English, and some-imes into both, progress is necossarily slow, and the sitting will pro ably continue for at least a fort night,
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