Interparliamentarlans

In the Luxembourg Palace, Paris, home of the French Senate, 400 delegates "of 35 nations constituting the Interparliamentary Union,* having talked long, wisely and not too well, brought their deliberations to an end in resolutions.

Peace was the keynote of this year's congress. Discussion of it showed clearly how far the principal continental countries of Europe are from achieving that first requisite of international comity.

French Senator Henry de Jouvenel, recently turned "traitor" to the League of Nations, as many internationalists profess, declared that the Spirit of Locarno was not enough to secure the peace of Europe. In voicing such expression he was speaking for the French Nationalists (the Poincareists) whose suspicion of Germany is deeprooted.

The German contention was ably expressed by Herr Doktor Paul Loebe, President of the German Reichstag. It was: If Locarno is worth anything, withdraw the occupation troops from the Rhine.

Vainly did French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand throw oil on troubled waters by supporting his Locarno policy. "It is only a beginning," he cried. "The road to peace is never the line of least resistance." But doubt remained as to whether or not "the beginning" were not the beginning of the end of Locarno.

On the subject of disarmament, equal discord was manifested. Some nations wanted complete worldwide disarmament, others partial disarmament. Some wanted League control, others did not. And the matter was finally disposed of so diplomatically and in such innocuous terms that the resolution was not thought worth publishing.

The delegates decided, definitely, that the Union would meet next July in Berlin.

*The Interparliamentary Union meets annually in the capital of a given country to provide a forum for the discussion of national problems and policies as they affect or are likely to affect international relations.