Paris, Nov. 2. The most that can be done at the Nine-Power Conference is to agree on the best means for mediation when the time comes, Paris papers agree.
The meeting of Mr. Norman Davis, American Ambassador at Large, Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, and M. Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Minister, is of utmost interest. The voice of America has not been heard in Europe for a long time, and the presence of the United States at the conference will be of the greatest comfort to Great Britain and France, the journals assert.
Pertinax, in "L'Echo ge Paris, declares, "The conversations beginning to-day between Mr. Eden, M. Delbos and Mr. Davis are an important part of the Brussels Conference, The international situation has become worse during the last few days." In explanation, Pertinax points to the withdrawal of the Italian Ambassador in Paris, Signor Vittorio Cerrutti; the sending of more Italian troops to Libya, the conspiracy in Morocco, and the German colonial claims, all of which, he says, are making it difficult for European states "to maintain the passivity of recent years."
Mme. Genevieve—Tabouis, in "L'Guvre," Radical Socialist journal, believes the conference is primarily an opportunity for Britain, France and the U.SS.R. to court the United States.
"There are only two ways of stopping the war," asserts Lo Journal, "conciliation and constraint.
Conciliation is difficult before both sides are exhausted and constraint is iculous. The latter leads straight to war by pretending to stop it. The conference will be above all a conversations between Great Britain, the United States, France and the U.S.S.R."—Havas.
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