Deadlock Cemented

The U. S.-British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva remained all last week in suspended animation, while the chief British delegates journeyed to London for a conference with Premier Baldwin on the eve of his sailing for Canada (see below).

U. S. President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg both announced entire satisfaction during the week at the stand taken in Geneva by U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh S Gibson (TIME, June 27, et seq.). Similar expressions of content were heard at the British Foreign Office; and statesmen said with great candor at Washington and London that the U. S. and British delegations would renew their negotiations at Geneva on exactly the same basis of unyielding deadlock as before.

In these circumstances most prophets thought that the conference would soon break up; and the much heeded dean of British journalists, James L. Garvin, wrote with asperity in the Observer: "Men big enough and broad enough to be worthy of our two countries would sweep away all of this complicated haggling."