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The Geneva conference will open in an atmosphere more lugubrious than when it first was announced. At the outset the thought of Geneva gave hope to those disappointed with the meager results of the Berlin meeting, especially the failure to resolve the German question. Unfortunately the cold war intruded into the preparations for Geneva conference. There was an academic dispute as to whether China had received a first-class or second-class invitation. At Berlin, East Germany, the protocol experts had come up with a magic formula which, so far as the West was concerned, caused China to disappear.