Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-28 | Page 48 | Brent Denies Leaving Opium Confab Miffed

BRENT DENIES LEAVING OPIUM CONFAB MIFFED BUFFALO N. N Y Dec 27 Bishop Charles H. H Brent of ot the Episcopal diocese of Buffalo speakIng speaking speak speak- ing at a luncheon today tendered I him by the city in recognition of his recent work in connection with the international opium conference at Geneva reiterated that he did I not consider the conference a failure failure fail fail- ure and that he had not left It in lii disgust He described events preceding his withdrawal from the conferenCe conference conference confer confer- ence as wel welt as the treaty prepared by the eight nations which was made known a week before It was to be signed and which he lie said the I American delegates at once decided to assail as a disgraceful jand and ru ril I document At this this stage I he said he felt that his services were needed in work at homo home and he departed I 1 the French minister I said the tho l bishop and showed him hima a copy of the tho treaty and tol told him that France could not afford aiford to I sign sign- such a ridiculous ridiculous- document Two days later came word t that at the I I French delegation was bidden by its Hs government to withhold it its signa signa- ture tura I Then I the British head quarters I gave the foreign office a copy of ot the treaty and and- of if our criticism I told them to study It Later as I was informed by radio when the day for tor signing arrived arrived- j Great Britain and France said they were not in a. a position to sign The I I upshot t of it was that nobody signed I and India held the document in in- its hand which it alone had signed I