GENOA CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 4

GENOA CONFERENCE

LLOYD GEORGE TO ATTEND,

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LONDON, March 22. Mr Chamberlain, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said, that Cabinet did not intend to reconsider the question of Mr Lloyd George attending tho Genoa Conference. Ho said l that it would be a misfortune for other countries besides Great Britain if Mr Lloyd'George did not attend. —A, and N.Z. Cable,THE WORLD’S HOPE IN GENOA. “ The big plan for Europe may well develop into a plan for the world. It is not only disclosed; it is by far, tho most important event since the armistice, and will give a new chance to all those sane hopes of recovery from war which Versailles destroyed. It may very well bo remembered historically as the host ,of ail the Prime Minister's achievements. . . . Genoa ought to bo a magnet to America. Tc it. nnt the c.itv of Columbus, and do

Genoa ought to bo a magnet to America. Is it not tho city of Columbus, and do not North and South America alike owe it something in-, return? Italians for a time during tho' maddening gyrations of Versailles were inclined to be wroth with Columbus and to lament that ho ever embarked his good Italian brains on a- voyage which resulted in the ultimate discovery of President Wilson. But that is all over now. Tho return voyage of Columbia to Genoa woulctebo a. practical romance which might mova even D’Annunzio to lyrical forgiveness.”—The London ‘Observer.’