NEITHER LONDON NOR PARIS HAVE SO FAR RECEIVED AN AMERICAN INVITATION TO A DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

President Coolidge told American newspaper correspondents that he was closely studying the possibility of convening a disarmament conference soon, probably in Washington, which would consider not only a further reduction in naval armaments, but also a reduction in land armaments.
Mr. Kellogg, the U.S. Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs, is currently finalizing the text of the note intended for the powers.
The French government has been informed of these intentions by Mr. Daeschner, our ambassador to the White House. But no invitation has reached Europe, either London or Paris.
Both the Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsay believe that the American government will only make its plan official after securing the support of the major states, whose presence around the green carpet is necessary. However, no preparatory steps have been taken so far.
Moreover, such an initiative could currently encounter objections from both the French and British sides. While comments in the London press are generally favorable, some newspapers rightly observe that Japan might be surprised to be asked to further reduce its fleet at a time when the British Empire is building a formidable naval base in Singapore, to which it is greatly attached, and at a time when a vigorous campaign is being waged in the United States for the expansion of the American fleet and air force.
For its part, France is committed to the projects currently submitted to the League of Nations. It does not consider the Geneva Protocol to be dead; it firmly believes in the possibility of reviving it. The head of its government persists in believing that the protocol, "the Covenant's public administrative regulations," remains the best of all the solutions proposed so far to the security problem. Furthermore, Mr. Herriot remains absolutely committed to the triptych he established in Geneva six months ago: security, arbitration, disarmament. France can only go further on the path to disarmament if it is offered security equivalent to its new sacrifices. In Washington, where they would be talking about disarmament, would they also be talking about guarantees?
Until further notice, then, the Quai d'Orsay believes, and in any case until next September. It does not appear that the negotiations already underway can move forward. J. J.

For the second time, the US Senate rejects the nomination of Mr. Warren.

Washington, March 16 (Havas Dept.) The Senate has again refused to approve, this time by a vote of 46 to 39, the nomination, proposed by President Coolidge, of Mr. Warren to the office of Attorney General. The Senate adjourned until tomorrow, in order, following the words of a senator, to allow President Coolidge to propose another attorney general. The senator added that he and his colleagues were prepared to remain in session for that purpose, as long as the president might desire.