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Show PEACE MEETING DIMLURE ' Nothing of Importance Has Bees Accomplished by Delegates te . The Hague Conference. i Prevailing Opinion la That Absence ol Results In Great Questions Is Due to the Lack of Preparation by All the Countries Repre- ' sented. Tho Hague. After hnvlng been In session more thnn threo months, nnd with ndjournment probably a month 'in tho distance, It Is recognized genon ally, and oven by tho most optimistic optimis-tic In tho pcaco movement, that tho. second International penco conferenco rs. has been and will be, at Its conclusion, '" barren of rcttulta leading to porma nent mensures of benefit to tho poaca of tho world. Even tho proposition for a future meeting of tho conference, which was unanimously adopted op Saturday, has been so altered as to suppress Its mittt Important part, namely, tho periodicity of meetings, merely providing for tho calling of 'a third conference, but establishing noth. ing with regard to tho convening ol tho futuro conferences. Tho prevailing opinion, as oxprcssed by ono of tho leading delegates, ly that tho absenco of results In thu conferenco con-ferenco on tho great question was duo to tho lack of preparation by all tho countries represented. This, hu said, was especially striking in tho, cauo of tho American delegation, which, wns supposed to hnvo como horo In complcto accord with tho I-atla-Amerl-can countries. This nccord, however, neither existed, nor hnd It been reached reach-ed during thu conference. Indeed, tho , chief result of thu conference will bu n growing feeling of dlflldcucu on thu part of tho South Americans towara Washington, ns, rightly or wrongly, they ncctisu the United Stntes of -having neglected them nnd of cnrlng only for working In accord with Great Britain Brit-ain and Germany. |