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International Leaders Gathering on the Steps of a Building for a Conference on Economic Stability and Disarmament. Ramsay MacDonald, French politicians Aristide Briand, Pierre Laval, Italian Foreign Minister Dino, conte di Grandi, and American Secretary of State Henry L Stimson among them, 1931. 'First, the new broom would sweep for peace. In London the leaders of seven major powers were meeting to discuss international stability and disarmament...We even had a Germany in the League of Nations. An air of real trying, as though at last all were united at last in realisation of war's absurdity. Streamlining for peace'. From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 1); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.