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This article focuses on the press coverage of an international conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The American press struggled along as best it could. The old timers, Frederick Kuh and Edgar Mowrer mixed with Pertinax, Madame Tabouis and other specters risen from the thirties. Less experienced international reporters: Fred Collins of the "Providence Journal," Martin Hayden of the "Detroit News," Nat Finney of the "Buffalo Evening News," Arthur Sylvester of the "Newark News" and Richard Wilson of the "Cowles" papers compared notes on the separate briefings with painstaking concern for details. Drew Pearson resorted to a series of flashbacks from the past.

The article reports on the developments during the meeting of the League of Nations held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1931. Among the developments during the opening of the meeting include the proposed world anti-dumping convention by Russia, as well as the move by Austria and Germany to present their economic Anschluss scheme to the World Court for decision. Russia's plan was pursued by foreign minister Maxim Litvinoff.

This article announces several events related to communication, including the Advance Program Available for Summer Simulation Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, The First European Conference on Computational Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, and two Symposium on Pedagogic Languages with Small Computers in Lawrence, Kansas.

The article previews of the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy that will be held on January 1955 at Geneva, Switzerland. It includes presentation of the scientific papers in technical sessions and the discussion between scientists regarding the issue of peaceful utilization of atomic energy.

The author came back to Geneva, Switzerland three weeks ago after shivering for six weeks on the Italian Riviera. As he went there to work, the fact that there were not more than six fine days in the whole time was less serious than it would have been had he gone merely to bask in a sun that declined to show itself except on rare occasions. The return journey ham Genoa to Geneva, via Modane, did not give him a favorable idea of the efficiency of Fascist organization. The favorite claim of Mussolini's admirers is that the Fascist regime has made the trains punctual in Italy. For all he knows, the claim may be justified, and it should not have been very difficult to make the trains punctual, for most of them are so slow that there is plenty of margin to make up for lost time.

The article presents information on several socio-political developments from across the world. There are fuller details about the election frauds in South Carolina, which seem to have been very brazen and to have involved two tricks, one by which the small tissue-paper ballots were dropped into the box, and the other by which, when the excess of the number of ballots over the number of voters in the district was revealed by the count, and the ballots were put back into the box to have the excess withdrawn as the law directs, the Republican tickets were dexterously placed on the top so as to come out first. The Radical Democratic party which has so long ruled Geneva, Switzerland, received a crushing defeat at the late election, their revision of the Constitution having previously, on submission to the people, been rejected by a majority of 6,000 out of 11,400 votes.

The treaty by which France and Switzerland agree to submit to arbitration their controversy regarding the special position of the border provinces is printed below as translated from L'Europe Nouvelle for November 22. The President of the French Republic and the Swiss Federal Council have resolved to resort to arbitration to define this interpretation and to settle the various questions involved in the execution of paragraph 2 of Article 435 of the Treaty of Versailles. For the Swiss Federal Council, M. Alphonse Dunant, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Paris; M. Paul Logo; professor at the University of Geneva.

The article reports on the gathering of the diplomats and experts at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. It states that the assembly focused on ways to end the world's arms race and to ban the creation of nuclear weapons. The event also highlighted the proposed regulations by Soviet Union's Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev regarding arms limitations and the nation's stand about the Communist China's nuclear weapons capability.

Information about several papers discussed at the assembly of 17-member executive committee of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland is presented. Topics include the Christianity's next religious spectacular, potential conflict in the incompatible goals of the council and the slower approach to ecumenism. The assembly features clerics, retired General Secretary Willem Visser and the Roman Catholic representatives.

The article reports on the third United Nations conference for the peaceful uses of atomic energy in Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg characterize the meeting as the beginning of the age of nuclear power. V. S. Emelyanov of U.S.S.R. is the president of the conference. Several countries delivered a paper, in which most of them dealing with the technology and economics of fission-reactor stations.

By the death of Léon Massol, the bacteriological laboratory at Geneva has lost its founder and director, the university a professor, and science a useful servant. Massol began his career as a railway employee, but afterwards studied with a Geneva surgeon, at whose instance he made a specialty of bacteriology. The restoration of the Cathedral of St. Pierre at Geneva is now almost completed. As a memorial of the old building, M. Camille Martin, who Is both an historian and an architect, has prepared a volume descriptive of the ancient church.

This article offers world news briefs. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced that he would offer a $77 billion balanced budget with protection of the dollar. Discussions about whether the United States will withdraw from the Geneva, Switzerland talks is mentioned. U.S. Senator John Foster Dulles professed that the division of Germany cannot be continued without great peril to the U.S.

This article focuses on the practical politics. The suspension of the conversion of sterling has highlighted the frantic hunger for dollars which characterizes post-war trading relations. When the British loan agreement was made, it was assumed that free convertibility could safely be undertaken at this stage because the sterling balances in the hands of Britain's creditors were bound to be small. The success of the Geneva after many setbacks, in drawing up a draft charter for the International Trade Organization is a hopeful step toward the creation of more stable conditions for world trade.

The article focuses on a conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. The American approach to the Geneva Conference was summarized by the U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower in his opening address. The negative approach to Geneva was reinforced by the personal pessimism of the U.S. Secretary John Foster Dulles. For 20 years the Secretary had followed each maneuver of Soviet diplomacy. He had learned to be suspicious of overtures from Soviet Union, scornful of generalities, skeptical of agreements and doubtful about apparent changes of heart. He dreamed that his lifetime of diplomacy would be crowned with a peace settlement.

The article discusses the highlights of the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy held in August 1955 in Geneva, Switzerland. It explains that the conference includes an exhibition of atomic technologies from participating countries. The most popular item on exhibit was the atomic reactor built by the U.S. government for the conference and it has been sold to Switzerland, which will posses it after the conference. It also presents information on the exhibitions from other countries such as the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

The article reports on the shipment of finishing pieces of official and unofficial U.S. exhibits for the first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy which will be held at Geneva, Switzerland from August 8 to 20, 1955. Some items on the U.S. displays include plans and models of numerous atomic devices and full-scale reactor. It is expected that the Geneva event will open opportunities for international trade in nonmilitary atomic equipment.

The article offers information on the conference of the Teheran, Iran, Yalta, Ukraine, Potsdam, Germany, and Versailles, France governments to be held on July 18, 1955 in Geneva, Switzerland. The event will feature Harold Kissick, U.S. veteran foreign service officer, and his deputy, Richard S. Wheeler. Moreover, participants will tackle world peace.

This article presents news including the completion of hearings on medical frauds the victimized the elderly by the Senate Committee on Aging, the second phase of the strategic arms limitation talks, which is set to begin in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 21, 1972, and the promotion of Henry Kissinger's announcement of the conclusion to the war in Vietnam as the 1972 presidential elections approaches.

Presents news briefs related to several sociopolitical events of the world. Information on conventions of Democratic Party and Republican Party that were held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Description of the meeting of Assembly of the League of Nations held in Geneva, Switzerland; Opinion of the Democratic Party that the depression is practically over due to policies of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Information on the first public convention of the Communist Party in New York City; Comments on French Premier Leon Blum's the measure to nationalize the entire munitions industry; Information about the convention of National Education Association at Portland, Oregon; Comments on the Congressional debate over the Wagner housing bill.

The article presents information on various developments from around the world with emphasis on international relations. Sanctions against Italy are to be made effective by the League on November 18, the election in Great Britain is on the fourteenth. The gap of four days suggests a peace drive before Italy finally is subjected to economic penalties. The British government cannot risk the public discussion of peace during a political campaign. The resumption of military action by Italy in northern Ethiopia is not inconsistent with the possibility of peace negotiations later this month. Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini obviously delayed the advance hoping that Geneva, Switzerland, would not be able to form a united front against him.

The article presents information on political affairs and policies of the United States as well as other international affairs. U.S. Republican leader Nicholas Murray Butler expressed the opinion that if the wreck of the Republican Party is not taken over by a group of younger and liberal elements within it, it will soon pass out of existence. Solicitation of funds for unemployment relief has started in many communities throughout the United States. The Swiss authorities were brutal in attempting to suppress radical agitation in Geneva.

The article examines the proliferation of abortion in Geneva, Switzerland. The city, known for embracing Calvinism an the League of Nations, is now being labeled as the capital of western Europe, with about 3,277 legal abortions in 1953, of which 1,761 were performed on nonresidents. It was pointed out that the number of live births was lower than the number of legal abortions. Interpretation of the abortion law is based on the conscience of the majority in each of the country's 22 cantons.

The article reflects on the activities and aims of the League of Nations in convening in Geneva, Switzerland in September 1926. It was evident that the idea of union was so strong that it overcame the more selfish national impulses of a country. The assembly was in response to attempts to reach a decision with respect to international affairs. It was also observed that old foes could be brought together in the League and their reconciliation could be officially witnessed.

This article focuses on the socio-political issues. The Senate has passed the Underwood bill authorizing the government to turn over its nitrate plant and vast water-power development at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to a private lessee. The report of the Committee on agriculture in favor of continued federal control has been discarded. East and West meet in the opium conferences at the Geneva, Switzerland and happily the representatives of the U.S. have sided with the East. Seldom has the selfishness of colonial powers exposed itself more clearly than in this.

By decreasing tensions at high political level, the Geneva Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, made possible increased cultural, scientific, and economic contacts between the Russians and the Western world. The Geneva spirit has permeated the United Nations (UN), tending to free energies heretofore locked up in that organization by the cold war. This is particularly true with regard to the admission of sixteen new members, a step which makes the world organization more representative and thereby increases its power to maintain world peace. The Geneva Conference, moreover--and this despite the disappointing results of the second, or foreign ministers' sessions-gave new impetus to the UN's search for solution to two other problems: disarmament and colonialism.

The article comments on the United Nations International conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. This conference seems to make an end of prohibition. In opinion of the article author, the great secret apparently never existed. It was the basic principle of fission from which was derived not only the explosive capacity of the bomb but the working capacity of the nuclear reactor. All that was a bright promise of atomic energy but it was overcast by proper misgivings about the hazards implicit even in the peaceful uses. The journalists, the antennas of public misgivings, sensed this earlier. They harried the scientists at the briefings about the risks of radioactive wastes and the rise in the background radiation.

Presents response of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the Summit Conference that was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Declaration that German unification was kept as the "acid test" of the Geneva spirit by the Western ministers; Attempts of Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov to evade all discussion of German unification; Need to determine whether in private sessions among diplomats, the Russians hold to the same positions they took on the Geneva stage.

The article reports on the plan of steel industry executive Henry Kaiser to lease the facilities of Geneva Steel Co. for a five-year period. He announced that he was preparing a syndicate of western financial and industrial interests to be referred to as the "Kaiser Syndicate." Kaiser suggested that the rental be fixed on a per-ton basis, the exact figure to be set on the basis of a facility valuation being determined by the consultants of Reconstruction Finance Corp. He vowed that his syndicate would run Geneva to the fullest possible extent.

Every visitor to Geneva, Switzerland, has at some time or other during his stay leaned over the railing of the quais or bridges and watched the swans floating on the blue waters of the lake. As the birds drifted along without apparent effort, he has admired the grace of their movements and the serene dignity of their bearing. Geneva swans have associated so much with international statesmen that they have taken on some of the most striking characteristics of those gentlemen. The swans look impressive as long as things are going smoothly, but when, unknown to the observer, they are abruptly confronted with some bird problem and the necessity of making a decision, they meet the emergency by assuming a perpendicular position with head in the mud.

Attentive observers at Geneva, Switzerland, if asked to specify the most significant development in the League of Nations during 1928, would probably agree in pointing to the leading role which Germany has come to play here in the year just closed. For the German emergence from the position of a conquered nation, admitted to the association of her conquerors on sufferance, is now complete. And with this emergence comes an alteration in the character of the league which loses none of its profound significance from the fact that it is developing slowly.

The ninth meeting of the Opium Committee of the League of Nations was held in Geneva from January 17, 1927 to February 1, 1927. On this occasion the committee threw overboard all pretensions to the contrary and came out boldly as the upholders of the opium trade; also the drug trade. For this time the fight centered on drugs rather than opium. Drugs, it would seem, pay even better than opium and it is evident that the drug interests are able to exert powerful pressure on their various governments and upon the delegates sent by these governments to this Opium Committee of the League.