Genoa Conference Was Tainted
A Lack of Frankness In Dealing With The Ground Ideas
August 1 1922
DR. E. J. DILLON
Genoa Conference Was Tainted
DR. E. J. DILLON
THE reasons for the failure of the Genoa “tournament,” as he terms it, are dealt with at length by Dr. Dillon in the Fortnightly Review.
After expressing the opinion that the scheme was “tainted with an original sin which obviously doomed it to failure from the outset—the ground ideas of the problems to be mooted and solved had been set aside with common consent,” and commenting upon the unaccountable behaviour of the Allies in expressing surprise at the Russo-German agreement, which he states was no secret and had been settled previously in Berlin, he sums up the matter as follows:—