Evening star., 1921-10-31
PRINCIPAL HOPES
OF ARMS PARLEY
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lwiil say. To that France answers:
lsiermaAy has not yet paid her war
tAiA. Ask the man on the street in
Arance ana he will remind you OF the
llAOns that 4ive on, MANNED and Grip
tpred. and hA will ask what your plan
lis to insure against another invasion
or what your idea is of how the Ger
: Turn over to England. The man on
En,e street thu re knows the British
kaAt saved hin from death Except
for that feet, III e food supply Of Eng
Hand would baxt gone to the bottom
at the whins Of are submarine. Twice
In a ch tury the / fleet has saved che
fRriton. He ha&es to part with it.
and Will not liyA tiy agree to stop
building.
i Then hoas at "a pan-millions and
millions Of peSpls dnexen riine for eot- as out
Ilet. They look towaA CHINA with i.s
wealthy resaurces Tho shall stand
lin the WY Of their -des slopment: But
Ethe big powers-the United states,
EGfeaf Britain, Italy. N 'snce and the
Frest-refuse to allow cA ina to be de-
! spoiled. The overseas Tade OF each
country cAnnex BE jespaA died by al
flowing japan q monopoi1 in the 1ar
least.
I Frfstson Must he Re. noved.
i The man on the street in Great
tRrfeain, Tranee and japan makes
public opinion. Collectively In power
Fin the United States go to wa" WIN
Japan to save China? PreN loehe
Roosevelt once told the German, am
iibasssdoc' hs didn't think so. The taI
t,easo is too far away. But why shoa ~
America carry the bssrde o alone" Ai
! far eastern. problems heretofore have
|.been settled by a coalition Of powers
nothing so formal as an alliance. bu
/ an effecrfve combination .of countries
having vital interests to protect.
l. The object Of tha coming conference
therefore Is to draw up rules and
regulations for the behavior of all ma
tions In the far east-an effort to
est ablisf equality OF commercial op-
portunity. Indeed, it goes deeper than
,that. Sources Of friction must be re
moved otherwise thereli be a war in
the far eaSt in the next decade. And
America has had one lesson In how she
lean bs drawn into q maeistrom !rom
Ewffiol, aA niaSe she seemed to be thou
sands OF miles distant.
I But aside from lar eastern qnes-
tionS comes g. larger matter-bring-
Jag the nasioaS Of Europe and Amer
| ics into some kh1d OF an understand
ing abour the future. Shall the repa-
rations. question b. 2Iloweo 70 oIfIt,
enforce her wish? Amerca wants
Europe to pay back ths $4,000. .ooo. .ooe
flent during the war It can't be paid
| until Germany begins paying Eng
land and France. The United states
Gxs material interest in seeing Ger
| many make good her plA dges. AS
sutnfng The good faith of Germany.
she Will not be restored by policy
/ on starvation and strzngufatiAn. Eng
Flsnd told Franee that. h1t At only
I thts America stands close to the Brit
ish, view. you czn'r make man
staggering under load carry 1t Oct
ter by whipping him. too
} MternntsonaI co-0De,atfsa.
| The United States wants to helH.
Woodrow Wilson proposed one for
rejected by the American Senate as
bei6e too intricate. Warren Harding
has proposed Snother formula-in-
ternational cooperation. He doesn't
| think a rigid institation like the
he believes the present league is go
| ing to be Of immense help In keeping
the European nations teGether. He
hopes 1t viii live for that purpose
willfsse at present to favor American
[ membership.
Bot, just the same, international CO.
foperatfoH, not isolation, is the funda-
And at the Washington conference
America WIFI come back into the
| family Of allied and associated pow
ers and take up anew the thread OF
European Questions which do affect
Americas economic welfare. RepaTa-
tions. balanced budgets. payment Of
| war debts rednaAcing OF war loans
freadjastnent Of the whole financial
situation-this and ways and means
1 Of bringing nations into peri odic con-
ference hereafter, either through the
supreme council or informal meet
| ings of foreign ministers and arabas-
sadors, are to be talked over In an
effort to make a healing peace
Copyright. 1921. b. Tie Evening ssar.)