Another important speaker on the occasion of the inauguration was the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, who outlined the circumstances of the intervention by the United States in the Great War. clared themselves ready to discuss an agreement abolishing the bombing of civilians.
"When France was weary as a result of her efforts around Verdun, when the submarine warfare increas-
"Is it too much to hope that there might also be an agreement to abolis bombing planes fo be followed by general limitation of armaments?" he asked.
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