The Declaration of the Nine-Power Conference in Brussels, says "The Times" to-day. docs not go so far even as the Report adopted by the League of Nations Committee of 23 fon Oct, 5, which, at least, held out some hone that individual members of the League might extend some help to China.
hardly surprising, the fo continues, that the Chinese delegates should have expressed their dis-Appointment at the poor results of a fur eat international meeting. Yet It is dimeult of see what other conclusion the Conference could have reached.
It must be admitted that the odds have been against the success of the Conference from the start, "The Times points out, and disappoint ment at ts meagre achievement has been intensified by the fact that it met before the echoes of President Roosevelt's wreat Chicago speech had time to subside.
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