The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-01
BRITISH move
May SETTLE
DISARMAMENT
Scrapping of War Equoment
May be Determined'y y he
newal of Anglo-Jaanese
Treaty.
USE TRADING TATlCS
BY MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON. July 1.-Jst "na'
is TO happen next in the wayol prog
ress towards an agreemertiof as
armament cannot be told dtnitely'.
The ase is now in a field WIRE II Is
only possible to make deductins iFotn
appearances. II looks as II mere Il
now going on between AnFlea on
the one hand and Great Bran anu
Japan on the other one of .ose ne
gotiations in which the moveiaho ap-
proaches are less in the formf WORDS
and documents than in the yahsAole
field of psychology.
There are earnest and dirtmlna-
ed folks to whom the way dlsarm
is to disarm. To them theWay 10
bring about a conference for isarlIld-
ment is to call such confere'e open
ly, formally, and specificall But
there is another large groulof per-
sons who understand that sEn ne
gotiation includes a good de OF the
psychology of trading in wbh men
who are the most expert pctice d
good deal of waiting for the her TEL
low TO make the first move.
Use Trading Tactics -.
Idealists and direct-mindedperso
may dislike to concede it, butle TACT
is that even so exalted an iLltutlon
as the peace conference inlded
good deal that was in the Iure OF
horse trading. 1t was the ht that
President Wilson was one of t IDEAL
lists and one of the direct-miHd per
sons who said what he thougl while
several of the other confere were
experts in the horse-trading art Of
diplomacy, that wrought Sc much
tragedy.
In Americas diplomacy jus now
there may or may not be srtain
amount of the horse-trading eaiity
but there undoubtedly is a goa deal
of realization that some of thotheT
parties TO the negotiations ha the
horse-trading quality.
All of this, of course, it mereaduc-
ton from appearances. II looEis, if
America wants TO see whetherreat
Britain is going TO renew her aimee
with Japan A conference of disna-
ment with that alliance not reawed
would be quite another thing.
American Position.
Whenever the conference e1es
much of the discussion will rHlve
about the proportions which thesyy
of one nation is to share to the tsies
of other nations. That those poor.
tions would be affected by the fU oi
two nations being allied is obius
Even if Great Britain should rev
it's alliance with Japan, and ln.de
a specific exception as regards ny
future controversy with Anera
that, would not make the situaticIas
ideal from the point of view of APR
lea as complete lack of alliance WI
As everybody knows Great BEir
is just in the midst of consideriel
of whether or not to renew her Jst7
ese alliance. Public men in VAST,
ton not directly members of the 4
ministration, who feel free to u
take strongly the position that Gn
Britain ought not to renew the alliag:
At the time il was originally ma
Russia and Germany were competiu
of Great Britain in the East. Thai
no longer so. On the other ha
friends of Great Britain make on
good case for renewing the ALTAR
the most appealing part of their c
is that Great Britain ought not to
guilty of the affront to loyal
which would be involved in refusin
renew the agreement.
Selfish Reasons.
There are also, of course, SCI
reasons to the same effect. The
newal of this alliance is prob
Great Britain's best means for tai
care of her commercial interests
the East. Aso, the fact that ther
an identity in religion betweel
large part of Japan and a large
of Great Britain's Asiatic domini
makes it desirable in the highest
terests of the empire that Japan
Great Britain should be in allianc
In any event, it seems probable
the next move towards a disal
ment conference will come after
be determined by Great Britain s
newal or failure to renew her ALI;
with Japan.
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