The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-10
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SHIDEHARA
 GIVES VIEWS ON CONFERENCE

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 1o.-what- ever the problems of the armament conference, an agreement for linita- ton of naval armament ought to be "comparatively simple matter says Ambassador Shidehara of Japan, one of That country's delegates, writing in the current issue of the Harvard Crimson.
 The ambassador bases his state ment on the conclusion that the war left only three great naval powers each on different continent and with none of the real interests of one conflicting vitally witr the oth- erS.'
 At the same time the ambassador sakes opportunity to outline Japan's case at the arms conference, her re- Iatton to China and the Far Eastern situation, we'll as her place in the world.
 He writes:
 '"The Japanese delegation come to the Washington Conference confident that the nations assembled there will achieve a substantial measure of suc- cess and that valuable understand ings will result, enabling the &averal principal nations to live in future with less suspicion and distrust and least that can be expected. But we Japanese are hoping that as Presi- dent Harding said at Yorktown on October 19, The time has come when
 
 tia1 cooperation among nations, de- voted, each of them. in it's own pe- cliar national way, to the common good. the progress, the advancement of all Humankind
 'We Japanese are primarily con- cerned. as America is, with a nmtta- ton of naval armament. and it is on this matter that I speak with confi- dence What agreements can be reached for the limitation of land forces Is more difficult For me 10 esti- mate. But as far es the seas are concerned an agreement ought to be a comparatively easy matter for the obvious reason that fhere are but three great naval powers left in the world and that each of them belongs to a. different continent separa ed from the oth CTS by a. great ocean, and with none of the real interests of one conflicting vita1ly win the others. For these reasons 1t seems to me that only a most arbitrary attitude on the par. of one or another country can defeat the main purpose of the con- ference, and none will be arbitrary, fer the peoples as well as the govern ments of all three most earnestly de- sire agreement,
 "There Is an unofficial. I might say. public, American point of view that upon a settlement of Far Eastern problems, and to some Americans those problems seem greatly involved and fraught with possibilities of grave
  ince as the representative of another government to point out to any Americans how needless ds thiS alarm, but as your President has invited us to an open and frank discussion, and as the Crimson has left me free to saw what I will, I am sure it will not be arniss if I point out the fallacy of such contentious as have been launched in the United States by the doubters and by the comparatively few actual enemies of an understand ing.
 4'Intelligent and well informed na- val men in every country know that the Great War left the Unted Sta tes proper absolutely unassadlable. No power in the world is in a position to attack your country wi alout bringing grave distuess upon itself. For more than one hundred years you nave lived without a hostile foreign soldier within your borders, and today no nation in Europe would dare attack you even if any had the will to do so. Yet Europe is only 5000 miles away while Japan is twice as far.
 stBut the baiters of Japan are not content with that argument. They declare that Japan could take the