The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-21
Wants World Sentiment On
Adjustment of All
Submarines.
FRENCH FEEL HURT
BY BRITISH POLICY
Did moi Want Its Demands for War
ships Made Public-LOrd Riddell Good
Distributor of Conference News-Eng-
land Expects American Aid.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Special Despatch to The Reformer.)
Copyright 1921

WASHINGTON. Dec 2l-GTeat Brit
ain is making desperate effort to take
the conference out of the mesh of pri-
vate conversation and secret debates
and force the discussion into the open
in. the hope OF lining up the moral
forces of the world behind her demand
That the submarine be abolished
The tactics OF the British in pressing
,or Il pleHary session at which the
whole question OF submarine uses might
be discussed by Arthur Balfour and
Lord Lee with the entire press present
- a sequel to another and much more
significant incident in connection with
the French proposal TO build 10 battle
ships.
The French have complained to mem
bers of the American and other delega-
tions of the press campaign conducted
by the British against them in the last
Few days. They insist that the British.
broke faith in permitting the public to
know what the French battleship pro-
rosals were and that it had been agreed
that this would be kept secret as be-
tween MIR. Hughes, Mr.. Balfour and the
other members OF the naval committee
or the powers in conference here.
GOOD British Assistant
The question OF whether the British
did or ant not break faith hinges largely
upon whether Lord Blddel Is an Official
representative Of Great Britain at this
conference or simply Il private citizen
engaged IN newspaper work. Every day
Tor many weeks Lord Rlddell has re-.
ve!Eed the newspaper correspondents
not only OF England, but the Omitted
States and other countries and has dis
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simply Il Reporter.
Now Lord Eiddcll in response To the
french attack on HIM and the British
Tor - leaking > about French proposals
has declared that he. never was in any
sense official, but that bc came here
solely as the representative of the Brit
lsh newspaper pruprictors' association
and that his primary purpose was 10 as
,ist British journalists in getting news
from the British deleGat ion.
While performing this task he was
quite willing. indeed ANXIOUS. to have
! ,l.,reF 4
axe Whatever news he was giving out.
we dId2 say h" was an official spolse~-
nan, ,,NtEerth@iISS' ii Is a TACT That
t .ioo:i-u it"atH On" lE9 same Kind OF a
inlhE AT ne eIS4l tt7 conference and
H., me ~ lS' ItN point al
Ilv tInEs vi Iie supreme coGheii
~ ~ : al -: ~ - an II'iihaIe lLlehc OF /
ii I',.. "IInlsv'I l11,oyd George ana Is s2ld
~ i". ~" lI"NltE private reports bE
49, 81: I" ne prime munster separate and
i SHIiiiSL from Ihe reports sent by Mr.. /
-" iouL anu Jhe odiclals OF the British
i, rH"I ieH. ne : SORT OF colonel
lioiae Tor AIT L'"Fd George. lie now
V!%IIl9 MS status Is SIMPLY That OF
'T Ti
i"5Id IiudeH departs To-Day Tor Eng
'.lu "Hd -" Heh ne goes there VIII be Il
lEH 81 Feiiei' hot from the corresponds /
.u'9 "uo H"Nr oniatHed 50 nuch lhfof-
'lal ,oh from Eim. but from the members
~ me l"IIouN ughe3liohs VINO nave ielt
=, ~ at case over ms anomalous position. .
mere Is no objection to publicity repre-
=. e "a or propaganda agencies at
t, LIS Conference; MOST OF the powers
.r a.l, 20 nave Eie lheliinlle Japanese, Chl-
TeSt anu the rest. but even these pub !
city agents are limited IN what they
LaH say IN hehah OF tnelr respective !
1selceaIlohS. LORD blddeII observed no
'liits ana on one occasion read from a |
,,f 'l'a'e4 document what appeared TO