The Washington herald., 1921-11-16

whleA calls Tor clad neation ana for
|tholgoS1ing out Il kstatla in Z pro.
ionuba sessioa e axpsrts.
The HUGHES plan dsalt only tn
bresE outline1. 49, many 6Gtnils
muet be TIE subjsek Of eonfsreaes.
For exampis. Japa3 wants 70 know
abont naval hases In the Far East.
4 s4eet which wobId ~ so0e1snt
for Ayapal. n the Inavies Of Great
Britain and the ue,itsd strtss are
always At isast alnes miles away.
etettss should ha1h = navr4 kess
In the Philippines. I I'd Il Great Brit
ain shouid have, o. ~ Hong Kong.
or eisewhere IN ths Far Dast.
Great Britain yents 10 discuss
some modihcatscnsi q ths Hughes
plan az II Affects i9ahmarines
Aan - Bnl olsnsavs Wss.
This IL ali prss enough. In. the
end It will ~ Egc6gnisel that u
doesn't amount tp' mnch- TIE prtn-
cipie Of the Hug4o plan. - he has
stated again an4F ag.ins 10 naval
Offensive war nlust be made In.
possible" NothfAg that the naval
experts or the diplomats can DO
viii De allowed fD violate this fun
damental princiyle. A. son A they
recognize this. the ywfn pc ess
insistent upon dStaiis. II they snonio
attempt anything designed seriousiy
to cripple the Hkexhes plan. Hughes
always has 1t tni his power 10 eah
another public session and repeat
his. sensation Of last Saturday. IN
deed, if would ne more Of . sensa-
ton II Hughes nnii q pubic session,
ana reveal thaf anybody 10 uyfns
to upset the prugram Nobody can
safely try that
II is not to be. denied that the tp-
terests both hlrt and abroad which
don't like the Hughes program. are
very busy. YeGferday was probably
the ma ximum oK their activity. and
is rikey TO mark the maximum Of
their hopes.
France ssApprese,sive. =
All the eyelas a the past two
disturbascs ovsr ne Hughes plan
days refisct the undercurrent OF dis
turbancs over chs Hughes plan. II
In an clear rs anything can be that
France has become aprehensive. She
thinks England fs going to say that
IL she reduces her naval armament
to the Hughes basis. then France.
twenty six mnas across the channeL
must reduce hrr land equipment, ia-
GLIDING the number OF her soldiers
and the number Of her airplanes. to
such q point chat France won't be
q menace to England on the new
naval basis.
France wants to hold out against
doing this until she gets from Great
Britain and ule United States a def
mite promise 10 come to her aid in
time of need- France sees things
going against her. The French dele
gates can orssee that IL the atmos-
phere OF Saturday should keep up.
there will be little tolerance for
any attempt on her part to try to
make the conference a trading mat
ter. and to hold of from being as
generous as the three naval powers
will be IL they adopt the program.
There was a decided atmosphere
Of appreherssive turbulence in Bri-
and's speech yesterday. and one who
followed t1fe episode closely could
readily g,e6 the impression that
Hughes had taken notice of It
Baifour. on the part of Great Brit
ain. went as far toward complete
assent to the Hughes plan as he
could go with the limitations on his
authority. He is not independent.
but must do what the cables from
London oell him to do. Great Britain
came to the conference with the idea
that she woulud make reduction of
naval az mament contingent upon a
previous arrival at an agreement on
the Frs- East. and probably still
hopes aor that.
All th ese and others are the things