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Show IPEACEJEETINC DISMAL FAILURE Nothing of Importance Has Been Accomplished by Delegates to The Hague Conference. Prevailing Opinion It That Absence ol Results In Great Questions Ic Due to the Lack 'of Preparation by All -the Countries Repre- tented. Tho Hague. After having been In session more than three months, and wllli adjournment probably n month in tho distance, It Is recognized gener. ally, nnd even by the most optimistic optimis-tic In tho peace movement, that the, second International peace conference has been nnd will be, at Its conclusion, barren of results leading to pcrmT. ncnt ineasuieH of benefit to tho peace, of tho world. Even tho proposition for a future meeting of tho conference, which was unanimously adopted on Saturday, has been so altered as to suppress Its nuwt Important part, namely, tho periodicity of meetings, merely providing for tlio calling of n third conference, but establishing noth. lng with regard to the convening ot tho future conferences. Tho prevailing opinion, an oxprcssco. by ono of tho leading delegates, la that the absence of rcsiiltB In tho con. forence on tho great question was duo to tho lack of preparation by nU tho countries represented. Tbh, ho said, wns especially striking lu tho case of tho American delegation, which was supposed to havo como lioro In complcto accord with Uio Ltlttn-Amcrl-can countries. This accord, howover, neither existed, nor had It been reached reach-ed during 'tho conference. Indeed, tho chief result of the conference will bo n growing feeling of dlffldenco on tho part of tho South Americans toward Washington, as, rightly or wrongly, they accuse tho United States of having hav-ing neglected them nnd of caring only for working In accord with Oreat Britain Brit-ain nnd Germany. |