The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-10-20


tatlon OF ornaments. The Presiden
apparently wants the lawmakers t
stay in session. 1 8 II
There are in congress today some
men who would like to keep thing,
running while the conference Is at the
beginning of its work. There are only
q few OF these men, but some Of then
are influential and some of them may
be expected to plead with their fellow
members that for safety reasons In
their home districts they Should .'op:
pose any adjournment. Safety in
their home districts" means that some
members of the house have large
bodies of constituents who would like
to storm the national legislature in
behalf of some land or other over the
seas at time when the conference is
trying to get settled down to work.
The leaders know that the country
wants the5ar1ns meeting to be success
full, and they fear that III bodies Of men
come here to march up Capitol ELL
with demand for this or demand
for that, the effect will be irritating
to some of the conferees who are act
ing in behalf Of foreign governments.
OF course, congress, under the Con-
Btitution, must meet early in Decela-
Der in its first regular session, but By
that time the members feel the confer
ence will be well under way and that
the conferees will have been giver.
time to know that the bulk of the
American people is with them If they
have shown a disposition to strive
sincerely to reach the desired end. :
=.Es italy and the Navy Question.
It has been supposed heretofore that
the discussion of the reduction of the
nayies nf the world would concern it.
self almost wholly with the attitude
Of Great Britain Japan and the UNI.
ted States.J Mlmay be that Italy will
have something rather strong to say,
or, at anyrate to intimate quietly, con-
corning action on the limitation Of
navies. -. d H.. 2.
France never has shown any anxiety,
concerning the navy situation. France
believes today that Great Britain and
the United States have friendship
for her which will protect her coasts,
and she feels that she has enough
ships Of her own to do police duty in
her various non-contiguous possessions.
France is concerned almost wholly in
armament limitations matters within
her army. ~ t. ,. t.. =. :
Italy seemingly wants to keep a
navy as big as that Of France. There
is no particular friction between the
two countries, but each has north Afri-
can possessions and, moreover, Italy
is somewhat concerned about possible
future activities of Czechoslovakia.
She feels, apparently, that France Is
not entirely in accord with her policy
as it concerns one or two Of the coun-
tries which recently have come into
existence as sindepeD dents. 81 " .
= v cIemenceaudTo 90 Cynical. ~ ri
Georges Clemenceau, within a few
days, has turned in an alarm. Per-
haps tile responding fire department
Will find that no conflagration is threat
ened, but, nevertheless, Washington
apparently does not; like to see Glenn
eflceau in the act of putting loren
to the arms conference house.
NJ Clemenceaus words were not alto
gether direct. He lninimized the plan
for. conference and he naximized
his belief in the good faith Of the
United States He lived here for a
good while and he liked us, and there
is nothing to show that, he does not
still like US, but, nevertheless, there
are some men in Washington who
wish thar this great leader of GER
tain kind of political thought In,
France would lend his tongue and his
pen to help. the cause Of the confer
ence, instead Of lending them to some
thing which reads and sounds like
cynicism. .@s
: 1t cannot be assumed that the jap
anese are in Il better mood toward the
disarmament conference as result Of
recent dispatches which have come
from the Orient and which have been
given wide publicity through the press.
the Japanese have gone ahead at navy
building and it is said that they are
constructing huge defensive works Mt
one of their fews island possessions
which never before has been defended.
The real Japanese problem. so far as
entering into any kind of plan for
the limitation of ornaments Is con
cerned, and especially entering into
plan for settling the Far East ques-
lions. is, the problem Of It's people.
Tie people of the islands are the real
power, Notwithstanding the fact that
they are not fully represented, SO far
MS their real influence goes in the ma
tional: councils. The people of Japan
seemingly have one thing in mind and
that is the dlsinclination Of other peo-
ple to treat them as equal because OF
the color OF their skins. 5,,,<.&=E
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