Bernstorff Resurgent

When U. S. citizens last focused their attention on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan. . . .

Times change, and Germans know that Count von Bernstorff is now a leading exponent of The League of Nations. Last week, at Geneva, he did his best to mediate between U. S., French, Italian and Japanese representatives who were squabbling about disarmament as members of an important League committee. With a voice and manner gently reproving, Count von Bernstorff called upon the Great Powers to disarm here and now down to the minute Post-War armament of Germany. Up and down Unter Den Linden, Germans commented on the Count's speech with ponderous approval, seemed unstirred by the supreme irony of the situation in which he spoke.

*The upper house, in contradistinction to the lower Legislative Assembly.