The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25

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declared In advance for some
thing. Mr.. Wilson had declared
Tor the league OF nations, MIR.
Hughes had indicated that from
the American point OF view. the
conference would be failure IL
the AnglO-Japancsc alliance were
not eliminated. And the chief
trouble In all International gath
erings * that no nation can get
something for nothing. IL was
written In advance, therefore. that
Mr.. Hughes would have To pay
and the real question was that the
sum Of his payments would BE-.
We know the answer now, the
four party treaty covering the re
Gions Of the Pacific" represents eN-
actly the price which Mr.. Hughes
and his government were forced 10
pay for the elimination OF the An
glO-Japanese alliance. The effort
to suggest that this four-party
treaty has any resemblance to tine
treaty OF insurance MIR. Wilson gave
France il idle. what is true. how
ever, is that both treaties represent
compensation paid by our represent
atiyes to obtain their way in other
directions.
The situation which had to be
covered was the necessity that the
British should get something which
would satisfy their japanese ally
and thus honorably acquit them Of
the debt which they acknowledged
as owing to their Japanese ally.
The United States was troubled
about the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
this the British recognized, although
they universally asserted that Amer
lean anxiety was unfounded and the
alliance rather a guarantee of Sc
curity than n menace OF attack. But
the Japanese professed to be equally
disturbed over the menace which
was disclosed in the expansion Of
the American navy ana the express
sion OF American feeling over Jap
anese policy alike in the Pacific is
lands and in China.
To satisfy Japan, there had 10
be found some form of insurance.
That insurance could not be had
i'm u treaty of actual alliance since
the fate OF the tripartltc agree
ment guaranteeing France well
demonstrated the fact that the
United States senate would not
consent To foreign cntanglcmcnts
or commitments. What had To be
discovered then was some mega
tive understanding that Is some
solemn and binding agreement on
the part of the United States not
To do something and that some
thing was obviously Ia attack Ja-
MN. MN.
All the debate seems to have CEN
tered here. Mr.. Hughes and his
associates put all their cards upon
the table. as they had to do. They
said in substance that they desired
the elimination OF ti1e Anglo o-Japan-
csc alliance and they met the sug-
gestion that a three party alliance
be substituted with the square as
sertion that any such compromise
was out of the question because II
would not survive the attack of the
United States senate. The maxi
mum of possibility, from their
point OF view was some agreement
by the United states which would
silence all japanese apprehenslons
Of American Interference.
Americas Top Price"
The maximum Of possibility from
the American side, the largest price
the American representatives could
pay for the elimination OF the An
glo-Japanese alliance was mus com
pretended in some form or SELF
denying ordinance, some kind or un-
dertaking which did not commit the
United states to support the Japan
ese in war or in peace, when dld
not involve the use or the threat or
the use OF force under any circum-
stances. Both the British ana the
Japanesc hoped for more. argued
for more, but bowed in the end to
the fact that the consent OF their
American associates in conference
to more. would doom the treaty in
the United states senate.
The British would have been glad
to substitute an American British
treaty for the Anglo Japanese am
ance, this went without saying Tor
the Japanese alliance carried with
II peuils and problems for the em-
pire. But. since this was out OF the
question their purpose was to make
any Anglo Japanese A m an
agreement as solid and definite as
possible. The Japanese were Sirni :
iarly practical They appreciated
| tho fact that the Anglo-Japanese
alliance had lost its vitality, that the
british would under no circumstance
support Japan against America ana
would almost certainly fight on the
American side In case OF war.
Thus the Japanese found them
seIy,ai with an alliance In being
which had little present ana no
future value. hut was, whilc IL
lasted OF such great annoyance TO
their American neIehbor that this
ncighbor was ready To pay To re-
move IL. They found, too, that
their British ally, who desired the
removal of the alliance, because IL
was n bar 10 AnglO-Amcrican
/ friendship was ON the whole pre-
pared To help his ally in Obtain
| Ing as good Il price az possible H',
cause the British sougntnSohu
nIj ,.,se the closest possible assO-
! tIation with the Americans.
Now il is In the light OF all these
| circumstances which ! have reca-
/ pitulated, that the four-powor pact
,,,,st no considered and, with II must