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…