A report of a nine-man Dutch parliamentary commission that visited New Guinea last year concluded that the Dutch administration was ineffective and without success.

As many a World War II G.I. can testify, Western New Guinea is an unappetizing piece of real estate—a land of tropical swamps, unexplored mountains and predominantly Stone Age inhabitants. Yet for more than seven years, possession of this forbidding backwater has been the subject of a bitter quarrel…

J. Loudon, Chairman of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission, declared that he is tired of having every session of his Commission break up in fruitless disagreements.

A blunt, honest Dutchman was looked askance at, in Geneva last week, as the League Assembly continued in session (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.).

Representatives of all the Great Powers, except Japan, told the Dutchman that they were “surprised”‘ at him.

President Calvin Coolidge was reported by cable to be not only…