There is little hope and little strength in hole-and-corner bargainings between the officials or politicians who happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the time being.

If to this brief summary of the increasing secretiveness of the proceedings of the controlling bodies of the Peace Conference are added the intrigues and personal bargainings which were constantly going on, the "log-rolling"to use a term familiar to American politicswhich was practiced, the record is one which invites no praise and will find many who condemn it.

And we are hard-headed Yankees at our bargainings; many a puffed-up celebrity loses his puffiness at our doors!

Here were bargainings, hagglings, quarrellings, elbowings, slang, low wit, laughter, abuse, cheating, and chattering enough to turn the head of a neophyte like myself.