To the Editor of the "Nowti-CiiNa Dat News"
Sm—I have heard it whispered that "just "occasionally you print fairy "tories in your truthful columns. So Tam wondering if you could find space for this one.
"Once upon a time there was a distinguished newspaper with thoughtful Master of Headlines. Now, ceeded one another in the press, based upon the varied heats and Pressures, relevances and irrelevant ces of each five minutes of debate. How much more senseless and dangerous in a conference of world significance, in which, by the nature of the case, there must be dificult ties and differences of view of the} utmost gravity to be expressed and propose, therefore" said the thoughtful Master of Headlines to dispense with your silly and mis-Teading. banners of black type. I will merely head those columns with] the same title each day and underneath add a plain indication of the day's proceedings. "France's C citisms." "British Hesitations." '"Ttaly's Offer." For the rest, T will rely upon the intelligence of the readers of my journal to understand that conference of this magnitude and importance must pass. throug! the mest divergent phases in which ope and despair, may ino) every possible proportion. One thing only am I resolved to do, times of acute division of opinion T will insist (a) it is better these views should be openly expressed in feouncitgshan remain secreted in nation'S'soul, sooner oF later to devvelop into incurable menace (b) the fact that after all the confer is proposing to meet to-morrow an' has not broken up in wild disorder (as the Soft Collar Committee once id when the Chi airman was called 'a stiff-neck) is a rdbre hopeful fact than all the apparent gloom. (e) the readers of this and every other responsible per "in "every" country conference i@ the one hope, in this day of the world's
leatastrophe, and they it Te-Bhytlcal unity, of avoiding "werid presentatives to remember that no ational sacrifice er risk could be s0 perilous as an abortive ending of] the conference."
And the Assistant Headline—Monger went back to his type astonished and perturbed, declaring that the would live unhappily ever after."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.