The Sunday Times is able to state that President Coolidge’s decision to summon a new disarmament conference at an early date is the outcome of most important conversations the president has recently had with his new secretary of state (Mr Kellogg) and Mr Houghton, the new American ambassador to Great Britain and lately ambassador in Berlin.
Various reasons have inspired the president’s decision, among them: (1) The reaction on the Dawes Plan of the maintenance of the Cologne occupation; (2) The recurrence of ill-feeling between France and Germany; (3) The indefinite adjournment of the disarmament conference in connection with the Geneva Protocol.
Two new features of the American proposal are: (1) The inclusion of land armaments and (2) The decision that the refusal of any
