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A series of observations, reflections, and occasional irritations recorded during an international conference on limitation of armaments and related Far Eastern issues. The writer alternates pre-conference hopes and skepticism with on-the-spot commentary about naval and land limitation proposals, rules for new weapons, and regional problems involving China, Siberia, and mandated islands. Portraits of delegations, diplomatic moods, procedural drama, and assessments of national attitudes illustrate the tension between idealistic aspirations for reduced armaments and the practical constraints of negotiation. The work closes by weighing the conference's modest achievements against the larger difficulties of translating disarmament into durable policy.
This book does not pretend to be a history or even an adequate review of the work of the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, nor does it pretend to be the writer’s full appraisement of that work. It is what its sub-title suggests, a collection of observations, rejections and irritations. These were set down each week of the first two months of the Conference and were published practically as they stand here by the McClure Syndicate.